Lessons will be about main fields of radio protection: radiation physic, effects of ionizing radiation on cells, organs and human body. Main Italian and international radioprotection legislations. Main imaging techniques (MRN, Xray, CT scanner, TEP, scintigraphy) and and main techniques and application of radiotherapy. Radiopathology.
Villari Biti Fava. Diagnostica per Immagini, medicina Nucleare,
radioterapia. Piccin 2011
Capaccioli, Villari. Elementi di diagnostica per Immagini. Società
Editrice Esculapio 2012
Learning Objectives
Objects of this course are the knowledge of effects of ionizing radiation on humans; the knowledge of radio-pathology; the knowledge of main unit of measure of radio protection; the knowledge of main Italian international legislations on radio protection, the knowledge of main imaging methodologies (Xray, CT scanner, NMR, TEP, scintigraphy) and main radiotherapy techniques and radiation-induced injuries.
Prerequisites
Propedeuticity approved by degree course
Teaching Methods
lectures
Further information
Attendance to lessons is required
Type of Assessment
multiple choices test
Course program
-different kind of ionizing radiations;
-interaction of ionizing radiation with matter;
-measure units in radio protection;
-early and late radiation induced side effects;
-radiosensitivity of organs and cells;
-effects of ionizing radiation on the embryo and fetus;
-radiation induced cancers;
-italian and international radio protection legislations;
- IRCP and IAEA recommendations
- Xray principles and application
- CT scanner principles and applications
- MNR principles and applications
- External beam radiotherapy: principles and applications
- Brachitherapy: principles and applications
- Radiometabolic treatments: principles and applications