10 ECTS credits
300 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 6021824ENR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.

Semester
1st and 2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Pass/Non pass
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Partnership Agreement
Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
Faculty
Faculteit Geneeskunde en Farmacie
Department
Supporting clinical sciences
Educational team
Hendrik Everaert (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
30 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
270 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

Conduct the following investigations: 

  • Diagnostic 

  • Skeletal 

  • Including perfusion and soft tissue (3-phase investigations) 

  • Total body 

  • SPECT-CT 

  • Endocrinology  

  • Thyroid scintigraphy: Thyroid scan with 99m Tc-pertechnetate 

  • Thyroid scintigraphy: Total body scan met I-123 

  • Thyroid scintigraphy: Capturing curve radio-Iodide  

  • Thyroid scintigraphy: Post-therapy scan (I-131) 

  • Parathyroid scintigraphy 

  • Gastro-intestinal 

  • Gastro-esophageal reflux 

  • Detect gastro-intestinal bleeding 

  • Stomach emptying 

  • Meckels diverticulum  

  • Lungs 

  • Lung perfusion and ventilation 

  • Lung perfusion and ventilation for quantification (pre-operative) 

  • Lung perfusion without ventilation 

  • Heart  

  • Ejection fraction 

  • Myocardial perfusion 

  • Cardiac amyloidosis  

  • Lymph  

  • Sentinel gland: Chest 

  • Sentinel gland: Melanoma 

  • Lymphography: Lower limbs 

  • Lymphography: Upper limbs 

  • Kidneys 

  • DMSA 

  • Renogram 

  • Renogram transplanted kidney 

  • GFR (Cr-EDTA clearance) 

  • Brains 

  • Brain metabolism FDG 

  • Dopamine transporter scintigraphy 

  • Oncology 

  • I=123 MIBG (potentially inclusive dosimetry) 

  • Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy 

  • PET(-CT) FDG 

  • PET(-CT) PSMA 

  • Infection-inflammation 

  • Leucocyte scintigraphy 

  • PET(-CT) inflammation FDG 

  • Others 

  • Direct cystography 

  • Therapeutic 

  • Benign thyroid diseases 

  • Thyroid carcinoma 

  • Skeletal metastases: Ra-223 (Xofigo) 

Course material
Handbook (Required) : Aanbevelingen Nucleaire Geneeskunde, Nvng, BIB, 9789051667967, 2000
Practical course material (Required) : Beleid, Procedures en Richtlijnen op de dienst Nucleaire Geneeskunde
Additional info

WORKING METHODS 

  • Autonomously conduct the investigations 

Learning Outcomes

Skills

OLR 2: Has acquired the skills, inherent to the specialism, and applies these correctly (M).  

OLR 17: Keeps further developing and improving own skills (M).  

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Portfolio with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

    Note: portfolio met functioneringsgesprekken en evaluatiegesprek aan het einde van het niveau expert (100%)

    PASS/FAIL

Additional info regarding evaluation

Portfolio with performance interviews and assessment interview at the end, level expert (100%).  

PASS/FAIL 

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Specialist Medicine: Nuclear Medicine (only offered in Dutch)