Basic Sciences of Nuclear Medicine

Dr Magdy Khalil has been involved in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging since his graduation in 1997 from Biophysics Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Egypt. He joined Kasr Al-Ainy for Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Cairo University Hospitals, as junior medical physicist immediately after graduation. In 2001, he moved to Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait, as scientific assistant supporting many activities and collaborating with variety of nuclear medicine professionals and research teams. In 2009, he was appointed in Biological Imaging Centre, Cyclotron Building, MRC/CSC, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College London, UK working as investigator scientist in preclinical and molecular imaging arena. In 2011, Dr Khalil moved to Bahrain as consultant medical physics contributing potentially in designing, establishing and running new nuclear medicine and research center equipped with state-of-the art imaging resources along with new cyclotron GMP production facility. Dr Khalil is now lecturer of Medical Biophysics in Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Egypt, since early 2015, and involved in teaching biomedical physics courses and related subjects to undergraduate as well as postgraduate students. Scientific interests are numerous and include but not limited to nuclear medicine instrumentation, molecular imaging, image quantitation and data analysis, radiopharmaceuticals, internal dosimetry, radiation protection and safety. He is also supervising quite large number of students in many branches of medical biophysics and collaborating with many colleagues and universities in the same field of interests. Dr Khalil has several publications in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, authors of many chapters and editor of two books in the same discipline namely "Basic Science of Nuclear Medicine" Springer, 2011 (1stEd) and "Basic Science of PET Imaging", Springer, 2017.

Part I Physics and Chemistry of Nuclear Medicine: Basic Radiation Physics.- Radiation Safety in Nuclear Medicine.- Non-imaging instrumentation in NM.- Quality assurance and quality control of Tc-99m Radiopharmaceuticals.- Tc99m Radio Chemistry.- Radiopharmaceuticals for Diagnosis and Therapy.- PET Chemistry: An Introduction.- PET Chemistry: Radiopharmaceuticals.- Radiation Dosimetry.- Part II SPECT and PET Imaging Instrumentation: Elements of gamma camera and SPECT systems.- Quality Control of planar and SPECT Imaging systems.- Positron Emission Tomography (PET): Basic principles.- CT in Hybrid SPECT/CT and PET/CT.- Part III Image Analysis, Reconstruction and Quantitation in Nuclear Medicine: Fundamentals of Image Processing In Nuclear Medicine.- Emission Tomography and Image Reconstruction.- Quantitative SPECT imaging.- Basic Principales of Radiomics.- Quantitative Cardiac SPECT Imaging.- Tracer Kinetic Modeling: Basics and Concepts.- Tracer Kinetic Modeling: Methodology and Applications.