Instrumentation Applied to Medicine

Introduction to the applications of physics in the field of medicine, with particular reference to both the diagnostic and therapeutic use of ionizing radiation.

At the end of the course, student will have acquired the following knowledge
· Main features of Radiotherapy equipments
· Radiation beams generation for external radiotherapy and brachytherapy
· Beams properties and clinical dosimetry, for both photon and electron beams
· Dose calculation and dose distribution by treatment planning systems dedicated to radiotherapy.
· Quality control for radiotherapy equipments
· Imaging devices in nuclear medicine (SPECT, PET).
· Radionuclide for nuclear medicine imaging
· Filtering and Reconstruction techniques for tomographic imaging
· Planar and tomographic quality controls
· Absorbed dose calculation in nuclear medicine application (internal dosimetry).