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Høst 2015

HEL-8021 Preclinical PET and Complementary Methods in Small Animal Molecular Imaging - 5 stp


The course is administrated by

Institutt for klinisk medisin

Type of course

PhD course. This course is available as a singular course.

The course is organized by the Department of Clinical Medicine and the Norwegian Research School in Medical Imaging (MEDIM).


Course contents

The course will offer theoretical and practical training in state of the art techniques common in small animal molecular imaging. The teaching will be given as lectures, demonstrations, and practical sessions. The topics discussed will include animal welfare and injection methods, radiation protection, basic radiochemistry and radiopharmacy, multicellular tumour spheroid (MTS), frozen section autoradiography, biodistribution, preclinical PET/SPECT/CT, image analysis and aspects of translational research.

Link to the preclinical PET/SPECT/CT facility at the Faculty of Health Science: http://www.uit.no/research/pet


Application deadline

Registration deadline for PhD students and students at the Medical Student Research Program at Uit - The Arctic University of Norway: September 1st

Application deadline for external applicants: September 15th


Admission requirements

To take PhD courses you need at a minimum a master's degree or equivalent, or admission to a Medical Student Research Program.

PhD students register for the course through StudentWeb . Registrations for the autumn semester starts June 1st.

External applicants apply for admission through SøknadsWeb. Registrations for applications regarding the autumn semester starts February 1st.

For more information regarding PhD courses at the Faculty of Health Sciences go to: http://uit.no/helsefak/forskning/phd/emner

The course has a capacity of 10 students.

If there are more applicants than available spaces in the course, students will be given priority from category 1 to 5.

1. PhD students affiliated with the national network "Norwegian Research School in Medical Imagining" (MedIm)

2. PhD students, research fellows and students participating in the medical student research programme at the UiT - The Arctic University of Tromsø (not affiliated with MedIm)

3. Participants in the Associate Professor Programme

4. PhD students and students at the medical student research programme at other universities (not affiliated with MedIm)

5. People who have minimum a Master's degree or equivalent, but have not been admitted to a PhD programme.

Mandatory prerequisites:
Passed course in Experimental animal science for researchers (Category C).

Documentation of passed course must uploaded in SøknadsWeb. Students who have taken HEL-8014 or HEL-6320 at the University of Tromsø do not have to send in any documentation.


Objective of the course

At the end of the course the student will be able to:


Language of instruction

English

Teaching methods

Lectures, demonstrations and practical hands-on exercises.

Assessment

Work requirements:

Examination and assessment:

Home examination, 10 pages, graded pass or fail. The examination can be answered in any Scandinavian language or English.

Continuation exam:

There will be the option of one supplementary examination if a fail grade is achieved at the first attempt. Application deadline for continuation exam is January 15th.


Recommended reading/syllabus

Books:

 

Research articles: