IMAGE DIAGNOSTICS AND RADIATION SAFETY
cod. 15478

Academic year 2008/09
3° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Diagnostica per immagini e radioterapia (MED/36)
Field
Diagnostica per immagini e radioterapia
Type of training activity
Characterising
24 hours
of face-to-face activities
3 credits
hub: -
course unit
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Integrated course unit module: IMAGE DIAGNOSTICS III

Learning objectives

<br />The course suggests that it supply the student with tools and theoretical concepts for the correct use of the devices for CT investigations. At the end of course the student will have to know the beginnings of instrumentation working, and besides to have mastery of the dose concept to the patient and good quality of the image.

Prerequisites

<br />§         have exceeded diagnostics through images 2.

Course unit content

<br /><br /> <br />ü          The CT: the physical bases; the technological aspects.<br />ü          The multislice CT: the physical bases; the technological aspects.<br />ü          The good quality controls in CT<br />ü          The relationship between dose and quality, the CTDI, the DLP, the effective dose in CT.<br />§

Full programme

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Bibliography

     <br />§         Lecture notes of the course.<br />Ø          Present didactic material on the Www.impactscan.org site

Teaching methods

<br />Oral lesson<br /> <br />Oral exam

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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