Thread: How Quantiative are Nuclear Medicine docs?

as a medical student, i probly can't answer this question as well as you'd like, but having rotated through both nuc meds and rads, I can offer you my own perspective. Radiologists don't use math, and are only quantitative when it comes to measuring the dimensions of their findings on the diagnostic studies they are readings. But, every radiology resident must take and pass a physics course on the physics of radiological...

Hey Nukes, I'm doing a highly quantitative major (involving a lot of upper math), and I am very interested in the quantitative applications in medicine. Browsing through some info, I fond that Nuclear docs tend to use to most physics and analysis of the specialties. I'm just curious, how quantitative are you? Do you use math regularly? What kind of math? Diff Equations, PDEs, Linear Algebra, ODEs, multivariable calculus and math? How...

From my exposure it seems like whatever radiologists/nukes/radoncs pick up on their physics boards is promptly forgotten afterwards. No doubt it was worth learning to have an overall understanding of say, how signal is derived, noise and error/artifacts and what not- but the fact of the matter is these are clinicians, not physicists. Also, since you're working on a sophisticated computer platform- most of the calculations are done for...