ADVANCED NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO MEDICINE

Academic Year 2019/2020 - 1° Year - Curriculum PHYSICS APPLIED TO CULTURAL HERITAGE, ENVIRONMENT AND MEDICINE and Curriculum NUCLEAR PHENOMENA AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
Teaching Staff: Giorgio RUSSO
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: FIS/07 - Applied physics
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

The course has the following learning objectives:

provide students with the knowledge:

  • the current legislation in terms of the use of ionizing radiation;
  • the biological effects of radiation, illustrating the basic principles of radiobiology;
  • physical and technological principles of diagnostic imaging equipment;
  • of the main methods for the verification of the quality of tomographic images;
  • of the physical and technological principles of the most innovative techniques of radiation therapy with external beams;
  • dosimeters of the main methods for the characterization of a radiation beam.

Course Structure

Frontal Lessons and some guided visit in clinical departments


Detailed Course Content

  • Biological Effects of Radiation
  • Diagnostic Imaging
  • Processing of Medical Images
  • Radiotherapy
  • Radioprotection
  • European Legislation on Radioprotection

Textbook Information

The papers and book are available at DropBox folder "Advanced Techniques of Physics applied to Medicine" / Documentation. The docs are update on the last lesson arguments.