PORTALE DELLA DIDATTICA

PORTALE DELLA DIDATTICA

PORTALE DELLA DIDATTICA

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Biomedical and industrial applications of radiation

02OKIND, 02OKIMV

A.A. 2025/26

Course Language

Inglese

Degree programme(s)

Master of science-level of the Bologna process in Ingegneria Energetica E Nucleare - Torino
Master of science-level of the Bologna process in Ingegneria Biomedica - Torino

Course structure
Teaching Hours
Lecturers
Teacher Status SSD h.Les h.Ex h.Lab h.Tut Years teaching
Co-lectures
Espandi

Context
SSD CFU Activities Area context
ING-IND/18 6 D - A scelta dello studente A scelta dello studente
2024/25
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). At the beginning of the course, a few lectures are devoted to the description of the main physical phenomena characterizing the interaction of ionizing radiation with matter. Concerning the applications, the course can be divided in two parts: in the first one the medical applications of radiation are described, starting from the devices for the production and detection of radiation and treating the main techniques that use ionizing radiations; in the second portion of the course various applications in the industrial fields are presented, in order to highlight the common background and potential further developments of the use of radiation. The topics covered during this course complement the pre-existing education on radiation protection provided to the students in the MS program in Energy and Nuclear Engineering, providing useful insights to the fields of professional development not necessarily related to energy production. The course is also organized in order to allow students coming from a different background, such as Biomedical Engineering students, to gain insight in the ionizing radiation application field, considering the various medicine-related applications and gaining the technical competences to critically understand and analyze the potentialities of radiation for biomedical and industrial use.
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. The student should also become confident with the different industrial environments where radiations are adopted.
Courses of Physics (I and II) and Calculus (especially numerical methods for the solution of differential problems). Knowledge of the physics of radiation and its interaction with matter is not necessarily requested, as the fundamental information are given at the beginning of the course.
RADIOACTIVITY AND INTERACTION BETWEEN RADIATION AND MATTER (12h) Law/types of radioactive decay Natural and artificial radioactivity Interaction of neutral and charged particles with matter Biological effects of ionizing radiation Use of radionuclides in medicine Use of Fourier Transform for the problem of interest in the course MEDICAL APPLICATIONS – DIAGNOSTIC (24h) Characteristics of the problem of imaging Properties of the radiographic image Devices for production and detection of images Monte Carlo modelling of radiation transport for biomedical applications Algorithms for image reconstruction MEDICAL APPLICATIONS – THERAPY (9h) Radiation therapy fundamentals Gamma therapy Brachitherapy Boron Neutron Capture Theraphy (BNCT) Hadrontherapy INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS (15h) Treatment of flue gases Sterilization processes Non-destructive analysis Radiotracer applications
The course consists in around 45h of theoretical lectures, complemented by session with applications and examples of the concepts illustrated.
S. Webb, The physics of medical imaging, IOP, Bristol, 1988. E.B. Podgoršak, Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists, Third Edition, Springer, 2016. R.K. Hobbie, B.J. Roth, Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology, Fourth Edition, Springer, 2007. F.M. Khan, The physics of radiation therapy, Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1994. Techbooks and publications on specific subjects are provided by the professor.
Lecture slides; Exercises;
Exam: Written test;
Written exam (1.5 h) on the contents of the course. Typically, four essay questions are proposed and one practical exercise: the student must give a detailed answer to two of the questions and solve the exercise. Notes and texts cannot be used during the exam. The final mark of the exam is evaluated as the weighted average of the mark obtained for each of the two questions and the exercise solution (with equal relative weight).
In addition to the message sent by the online system, students with disabilities or Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) are invited to directly inform the professor in charge of the course about the special arrangements for the exam that have been agreed with the Special Needs Unit. The professor has to be informed at least one week before the beginning of the examination session in order to provide students with the most suitable arrangements for each specific type of exam.
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