NMTS 3305 Radiation Biology and Pharmacology
This course reviews the interaction of radiation with matter, and radiation effects on molecule, cell, tissue and organ levels. Genetic and somatic effects of ionizing radiation, staging of radiation illness, and the Medical Internal Radiation Dose method of absorbed dose calculations are instructed. And the course provides an introduction to the uses of radionuclides in medicine, basic principles of generator systems, radiopharmaceuticals and their interactions within the body, preparation of pharmaceuticals using generator produced nuclides, quality control procedures, radioactive equilibrium states, and calculations of doses pertaining to pharmaceuticals utilized in the field of nuclear medicine.