Modern Physics - Lecture X01 - Nuclear Medicine
Channel: Stephen Sekula
Date: 2020-04-26

Defining nuclear medicine; a brief and truncated history of radiation and radioactivity; kinds of radiation; radioisotope production; the standard model of particle physics; the physics of the nucleus; positron emission from F-18; positron annihilation with atomic electrons; gamma radiation; gamma detection; Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans.