Enrollment year
2016/2017
Academic discipline
FIS/07 (APPLIED PHYSICS (CULTURAL HERITAGE, ENVIRONMENT, BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE))
Department
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
Curriculum
Fisica biosanitaria
Period
1st semester (03/10/2016 - 20/01/2017)
Lesson hours
60 lesson hours
Language
Italian, English-friendly: textbook and other teaching material in English, exam in English upon request, lectures in English possible upon request
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the concepts learned on the courses of the first three year of University (scientific faculty). The aspects illustrated and learned on the “Diagnostic Techniques” courses are also suggested.
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to introduce the student to the world of the largely diffused diagnostic and biomedical instrumentations.
Course contents
Principles of operation of the most used electro-medical equipments, in particular to the instruments for diagnosis and therapeutics which do not use ionizing radiations. The principles of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and the related medical application of this technique to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) will be presented. The ultrasound based apparatus for echography and echo-tomography will be studied as well as the equipments to measure the general and capillary blood viscosity. A SQUID based apparatus for magneto-encephalography will also be introduced. All the theoretically treated arguments will be experimentally tested by using the equipments of the Biomedical-Physics laboratory(NMR spectrometer, MRI tomography, Viscometers, etc.) and at the Institute of Radiology of the IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo di Pavia (Echo-tomography)
Teaching methods
The course is based on front side lectures and laboratory activities
Reccomended or required readings
1) Bioimmagini. G. Coppini, S. Diciotti, G. Valli – Patron Editore
2) Tecniche di CT e MRI nella Diagnostica per Immagini. L. Cei, A. La Fianza, C. Baluce. - Società Editrice Universo (Roma)
3) Medical Imaging Physics. W.R. Hendee, E.R. Ritenour – Wiley-Liss
Assessment methods
Laboratory activities reports and oral examination.
Further information
Laboratory activities reports and oral examination.
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