Università Roma Tre

The development of the program will mainly take place using the field study methodology with a guided internship in a Health Physics Unit of a Hospital Company.
Basic topics.
Physical quantities and units of measurement; Typical detectors for diagnostics and therapy with ionizing radiation; Diagnostic and therapy equipment; Principles of dosimetry of radiation beams, calculation and measurement of the dose; notes on the planning of therapeutic treatment plans; Radioactive decays and main radionuclides of medical use and; General principles of radioprotection, the role of images and information systems in the diagnostic and therapeutic fields; Health effects and physical risks in Magnetic Resonance
STAGE program
SECTOR: Physics in Radiotherapy
1) Dosimetry: Dose concept and its measurement.
2) Instrumentation for relative dosimetry: point detectors and bidimensional detectors.
3) Examples of dose measurements in photon beams with different devices.
4) Vision of the Linear Accelerator installations of the Radiotherapy Unit. Description and outline of the principles of operation of a linear accelerator. Vision of the TC installation dedicated to the centering of RT patients.
5) Vision of the systems for treatment plans (TPS) supplied. Illustration of the general principles of a TPS: structure and functions.
6) Realization of a simple treatment plan with an illustration of the fundamental criteria necessary for its setting.
SECTOR: Physics in Diagnostic Imaging
7) Vision Radiiagnostics equipment, examples and illustrations. Description and overview of operating principles.
8) Vision and illustration of the instrumentation and the phantoms used for Quality Controls.
9) Examples of image analysis for the purpose of Quality Controls in MRI and Radiodiagnostics.
SECTOR: Physics in Nuclear Medicine
10) Vision of Nuclear Medicine equipment. Description and overview of operating principles.
11) Mink and illustration of the instrumentation and puppets used for Quality Controls in MN.
12) Examples of image analysis for Quality Control in Nuclear Medicine.
SECTOR: Radiation Protection and Security
13) Vision of an RM SITE: description and outline of the operating principles of an RM system. Safety issues of patients and operators.
14) Instrumentation and dosimetry of personnel exposed to ionizing radiation

- FONDAMENTI DI DOSIMETRIA DELLE RADIAZIONI IONIZZANTI ( IV Edizione)
Raffaele Fedele Laitano
ENEA
http://www.enea.it/it/seguici/pubblicazioni/pdf-volumi/FondamentidosimetriaradiazioniionizzantiIV.pdf
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