The scope of the course is the illustration of the applications of ionizing radiation both in the medical (diagnosis and therapy) and in the industrial field (non-destructive analysis, industrial processes). The course can be divided in two parts. In the first one a description of the main devices for the production and detection of radiation are described, together with the main techniques that use ionizing radiations. In the second portion of the course the fundamentals of radiation propagation are presented, together with the mathematical and computational tools for the study of direct and inverse problems encountered in practical applications.

The student must acquire the knowledge of the main phenomena connected to the propagation of radiation in material media and the capability to use the mathematical and computational tools for the solution of direct and inverse problems of medical and industrial applications.

Fundamentals on the physics of radiation, on diffusion theory and on the numerical methods for the solution of differential problems.