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Nuclear Medical Physics (NMP) Oral Exam Content

Last verified on December 12, 2022

NMP	Category Description
Radiation protection, safety, professionalism and ethics	Internal dosimetry, including MIRD (formalism), medical event assessment, fetal dose, units Personnel safety, including facility surveys and occupational dose limits, radiation protection principles, personnel dosimetry, ALARA Safety for the patient, family and public (including exposure pathways, breastfeeding, and pregnancy), shipping and waste disposal Shielding, including facility design/layout and personnel protection Professionalism and ethics
PET and hybrids	Radionuclide production and characteristics QC procedures, including ACR/TJC/NEMA and acceptance testing, artifacts System principles, image fusion, random coincidences, scattered radiation, dead-time Quantitative PET, including SUV Image reconstruction, including attenuation correction, iterative reconstruction, filtered back projection
Single photon imaging systems including scintillation cameras, solid state cameras, and hybrids	Radionuclide production and characteristics for SPECT and planar imaging QC procedures, including ACR/TJC/NEMA and acceptance testing, artifacts System principles, including scintillation cameras, solid state cameras, collimators, image fusion, system characteristics Dynamic imaging, renograms, cardiac function, ejection fraction, tracer kinetics, lung shunt fraction Image reconstruction, including scanograms, attenuation correction, filters, edge enhancement, smoothing, unsharp masking, segmentation
Radiation measurements, including dose calibrators, well counters, survey meters, thyroid probes	Radioactivity measurement, including dose calibrators, well counters, thyroid uptake probe, survey meters Statistics, minimum detectable activity Radiation detectors, including survey meters, dead-time, personnel monitoring Quantitative measurements, including calibration QC procedures, including use of chi square, energy resolution, counting efficiency, geometry, linearity accuracy
Clinical procedures	Radionuclide therapy, including facilities, release criteria, radionuclide production PET and hybrids SPECT and hybrids, including gamma cameras Radiation dosimetry, including risk, radiation protection, and CT dose Radiopharmaceutical usage, thyroid imaging/uptake, informatics, display performance, miscellaneous

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