Basic Science Lectures There are 22 hours of Nuclear Medicine Basic Science lectures that have been made available to the radiology residents. Each geo site has one copy of the CDs which contain these lectures. The residents are expected to review this material while on clinical rotation in nuclear medicine. A quiz is available to test your knowledge Lecture Titles Basic atomic and nuclear physics Charged particles and photon interactions Nuclear counting statistics Radiation detectors Nuclear counting systems The gamma camera Collimators Computers in nuclear medicine Image quality Gamma camera performance evaluation and QC Emission tomography and image reconstruction SPECT data acquisition and quality control Factors affecting high quality SPECT PET data acquisition and processing Attenuation and scatter compensation Production of radionuclides Radiopharmaceutical production and QC Radiation characterization and quantities Internal radiation dosimetry Cellular responses to radiation Whole body effects of radiation Safe handling of radioactive materials