Unit COMPLEMENTS OF MEDICAL PHYSICS
- Course
- Physics
- Study-unit Code
- A002545
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- Fisica medica
- Teacher
- Leonello Servoli
- Teachers
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- Leonello Servoli
- Hours
- 42 ore - Leonello Servoli
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- FIS/07
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- 1) Detection of ionizing radiation
2) Gaseous and solid state active detectors; Passive detectors, films.
3) Principles of radiotherapy;
4)Main therapy technique with external beams:
elettroni beams, proton and ion beams, photon beams.
5) Other therapies: Brachitherapy, Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT), Nuclerar Medicine therapy, Radioguided surgery. - Reference texts
- 1) Radiation Physics for Medical Physiscists, E.B. Podgorsak, Springer
2) Handbook of Radiotherapy Physics, P. Mayles, A. Nahum, J-C. Rosenbaum, Taylor & Francis
N.B. Contact the teacher - Educational objectives
- Knowledge of ionizing radiaion detection techniques and of sensors' characteristics.
Knowledge of the main radiotherapy techniques and their application domains. - Prerequisites
- Basic of electromagnetism, Basic of Modern Physics.
- Teaching methods
- Lecture both in resence than inremote connection using networking solutions.
Occasional seminars linked to course contents if available. - Learning verification modality
- Oral examination (average duration > 40' ) concerning all the contents teached during the course.
- Extended program
- 1) ionizing radiation detection (16 h)
- ionization chambers;
- gas detectors;
- scintillation detectors;
- films and passive detectors;
- MOSFET and silicion diodes;
- diamond detectors;
2) external beam radiotherapy (16 h)
- electron beams therapy;
- adrotherapy (proton and ions);
- photon therapy techniques: stereotactic, cyberknife, IMRT, VMAT;
3) Other techniques (10 h):
- Brachittherapy;
- Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT);
- nuclear medicine therapy;
- radioguided surgery;