Course Details

Radiotherapy equipment

MS0161

Course
Radiotherapy equipment
Code
MS0161
Academic Year
2024/2025
Curriculum Year
2023/2024
Degree Programme
IMAGING AND RADIOTHERAPY TECHNIQUES
Curriculum
000 - CORSO GENERICO
Course coordinator
Credits
6
Lecture Hours
60
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
MED/36 - Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy, MED/50 - Applied Medical Sciences, FIS/07 - Applied Physics (Cultural Heritage, Environment, Biology and Medicine)
Course Type
Integrated learning activity
Course Delivery
OBB - Obbligatoria
Year
2
Teaching period
Primo Semestre
Campus
NOVARA
Teaching language
Italian
Course Contents
The course comprises the following modules: Clinical application and basis of radiotherapy, Quality controls in radiotherapy, Physics in radiotherapy equipments, Technical aspectsin radiotherapy equipments.
Learning Outcomes
Goal of the course is to provide to the students a bulk of knowledge in view of their enrollment as professionists in a division of radiotherapy.
Prerequisites
The students must have basic notions in Applied Physics and Radiation Physics.
Teaching Methods
Presentations in MS-Power Point format. Students will be given a PDF copy of the projected images. The PDFs of the images projected during the lessons can be found on the DIR platform.
Assessment Methods
The exam is organized differenly in the different disciplines of the course.
Detailed Syllabus
See individual modules.
Expected Learning Outcomes
The expected results consists on the basis of nuclear medicine in physics, tecniques, clinic and Pharmacology.

Moduli

Course year 2
Code MS0158
Course Clinical applications and Fundamentals radiotherapy
SSD MED/36
Campus NOVARA
Curriculum CORSO GENERICO
Credits 3
Course year 2
Code MS0160
Course Technical equipment radiotherapy
Lecturers Mariarita Bocca
SSD MED/50
Campus NOVARA
Curriculum CORSO GENERICO
Credits 1
Course year 2
Code MS0154
Course Quality control
Lecturers Luca Leandro VIGNA
SSD FIS/07
Campus NOVARA
Curriculum CORSO GENERICO
Credits 1
Course year 2
Code MS0159
Course Physical equipment radiotherapy
Lecturers Marta RUSPA
SSD FIS/07
Campus NOVARA
Curriculum CORSO GENERICO
Credits 1
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