This is an extremely fast paced and high volume department in which I currently perform diagnostic and theraputic procedures in general nuclear medicine and I also perform PET/CT studies with 18F-FDG as well within the same department setting. Responsibilities include patient education/advocacy, obtaining thorough patient history and previous study reports, gaining IV access, callibration and administration of radiopharmaceuticals along with other necessary medications needed for various studies, and obtaining the imaging using a variety of equipment. The equipment used in this department includes:GE Discovery Pet/Ct scanner with Xeleris Imaging workstation for processing and archiving, GE Starcam 300a and 4000i Single head gamma cameras, ADAC Forte Duel Head and Pegasys Processing workstation. Captus 3000 Thyroid Probe and well counter. Hospital Computer system applications include Citrix e-chart , IDX Imagecast , Pet-Net applications for PET dose ordering . PACS

I began the program in August 2004. This program is a 1 year accredited certification program. It is a hospital based program. At the time of completion I met all didactic and clinical requirements for nuclear medicine certification. This includes over 1200 hours of clinical experience. In the clinical setting, I performed the duties of a technologist under supervision by a registered tech or the program instructor. Clinical time included starting IVs, radiopharmaceutical injection, imaging, processing, and filming when required. Duties were performed in the areas of general studies, cardiac (exercise and chemical stress), PET, and the Radiopharmacy.
Due to the university status of the hospital, I gained experience in many of the more uncommon procedures. I was also fortunate to work in the pharmacy, where UNC has a Technetium generator and mixes its own radiopharmaceuticals.
The equipment I was trained with includes: Siemen's PET/CT scanner, Siemen's E-cam (single, duel head gamma camera, variable angle gamma camera utilizing ESOFT for image acquisition and processing, as well as ICON to process), Cedar Sinai software in the processing of cardiac imaging: Quantitative perfusion SPECT / Quantitative gated SPECT QPS/QGS, Atomlab thyroid uptake probe and well, GE Marquette Case 8000 exercise testing system with GE Marquette CASE 5000 treadmill, Ventil-ConII RADX and Pulmonex Xenon delivery systems, Vital statistics acquiring systems: Datascope Passport 2, and various software : RADplus, SMS, and PACS hospital systems.