Фізика медичних технологій

Course: Medical physics

Structural unit: Faculty of Physics

Title
Фізика медичних технологій
Code
ОК9
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
Knowledge of the basic physical mechanisms and methods of diagnosis and treatment; influence of electromagnetic field, laser radiation, ionizing radiation on an organism, the effects, modes, and restriction of their use in medicine. Radionuclide diagnosis and treatment. Principles of modern medical equipment. Knowledge of types of nanoparticles which are used in scientific research, for biomedical applications, diagnosis, treatment; their properties and the possibility of introduction into the human body; the mechanisms of their interaction with biomolecules. Molecular machines, control of their movement in human tissues. Targeted delivery of drugs. Photosensitizers. Materials for prosthetics, the specifics of how they function and limits in the human body, including toxicity, deterioration ets.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Knowledge: the basics of mechanics, optics, electricity and magnetism, molecular, atomic and nuclear physics. 2. To be able to: apply knowledge from previous courses of general physics, mathematical sciences, biophysics. 3. To possess the basic skills of: computational modeling of physical processes, quantum chemical calculations of properties of molecules, programming.
Course content
The discipline "Physics of Medical Technologies" is dedicated to teaching the physical fundamentals of the diagnostic methods, such as: ultrasound diagnostics, computer tomography, magnetic resonance tomography, positron emission tomography, spectroscopy and treatment methods, such as: radiation therapy, physical mechanisms of interaction of ionizing radiation with biological tissues, laser radiation. The use of nano-objects, in particular, carbon nano-structures, metal nano-particles, and molecules with determined properties for implementation in nano-medical technologies, photodynamic therapy and targeted drug delivery.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Fishman, Elliot K.; Jeffrey, R. Brooke (1995). Spiral CT: Principles, Techniques, and Clinical Applications. Raven Press. ISBN 978-0-7817-0218-8. 2. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2019-08-10. 3. Mackie, T R (2006). "The history of tomotherapy". Physics in Medicine and Biology. 51 (13): R427–53. 4. Mark A. Brown, Richard C. Semelka. MRI: Basic Principles and Applications. https://books.google.com.ua/books?hl=ru&lr=&id=oYOIHi3YkuMC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=MRI+principles&ots=ZoFizBPfCS&sig=Pf5D7rjQ3x_pkaBUW03i5Eki62M&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=MRI%20principles&f=false 5. "Radioisotopes in Medicine". World Nuclear Association. October 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, individual work
Assessment methods and criteria
Surveys, oral reports, discussion, essays, reports of practical work, module work, credit
Language of instruction
English

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Olena Leonidivna Pavlenko
Department of Physics of Functional Materials
Faculty of Physics

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Physics of Functional Materials
Faculty of Physics