Coordinator: George Sakellaropoulos
Lecturers: George Panayiotakis, John Tsakonas, George Vlachopoulos, Evgenia Mylona, George Bourantas
Aim and Objectives
The course aims to: (i) familiarize students with the role and duties of medical physicists and the steps required towards professional licence accreditation, (ii) highlight the main stages of a research project, as well as state-of–the-art medical radiation physics research topics and (iii) develop student programming skills to support programming applications and research projects.
Course Content
- Requirements for the acquisition of a Medical Radiation Physicist
Licence: Studies,
practical training licence, examinations, national, european and international
organisations of Medical Physics and Radiation Protection. - Duties and responsibilities
of the Medical Physicist: The Medical Physicist in
the public and private sector. The Medical Physicist in theRadiological Department, Nuclear Medicine Department, Radiotherapy
Department and Non Ionising Radiation applications. Professional ethics. - Searching for Scientific
literature: Development of critical information
skills for searching and evaluating relevant research literature, manage
intellectual property rights, searching for the right publication venue,
increase awareness on research integrity issues and help to avoid plagiarism
risks. - Main steps required to carry out a research project: Current research issues in Medical Physics-Radiation, defining and
formulating the research problem, literature search, study design, instrumentation
and apparatus, measurements and data collection, data analysis, conclusions and
research ethics. - Presentation of a topic: oral and poster
presentation as well as writing a scientific article. - Programming skills: development of
programming skills to support applications and research projects (MATLAB).
Suggested Textbooks
IAEA, EFOMP, AAPM, IPEM reports
Matlab
Lecture notes
Grading Policy: Projects.