Molecular Imaging with Focus on PET

Education facts

Code: 3FK285

Molecular imaging (MI) is essentially a multidisciplinary field. For a deeper understanding of the method, it is required that the course illustrates all parts of the process from the physics behind the instruments to radio-labelling of molecules validation of these in vitro and in vivo. The course will also exemplify the questions which are suitably answered by MI. The course covers * radiochemistry in tracer development * preclinical methods for in vitro validation of molecular traces * preclinical in vivo imaging using PET and SPECT tracers * image analysis and image processing tools * quantification and modelling of tracer kinetics * PET as a tool for drug development and * the clinical use of PET, e.g. within neurology, oncology, cardiology, metabolic diseases and psychiatry.

Entry requirements

150 credits of which 120 credits are in biomedicine, pharmaceutical science, and/or natural science. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Molecular Imaging with Focus on PET

  Uppsala University

  Start date: 2 November 2026

  End date: 1 December 2026

  Pace of study: 100 %