- Docente: Luigi Cirillo
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/36
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques (cod. 8485)
Learning outcomes
The student will acquire the knowledge about the effects of the radiation when interact with a biological system. Deterministic and stochastic damages; the protection and promotion of population health and the health care, the role of the physician in charge, radiation exposure monitoring and exposure limits.
Course contents
The 'action of ionizing radiation on biological material aimed at
understanding the main effects on cells, tissues and
organisms
The rationale of their use in medicine for diagnostic on the
principle of their use according to the dictates of the delivery of
doses as low as possible (ALARA as low as possible
achievable)
The rationale of their use for therapeutic purposes in oncology and
in some specific non-oncologic clinical situations according to the
medical application of the principles of justification and
optimization.
The rationale of fractionation of the radiation dose depending on
the type of radiation used.
Readings/Bibliography
material of the lessons
Assessment methods
multiple choice questions
Teaching tools
lessons.
Office hours
See the website of Luigi Cirillo