Anatomy and physiology as applied to medical physics

  • Aims: to educate foundation-level knowledge of human anatomy, physiology, biology and pathology (with focus on cancer) relevant to medical physics.

Radiobiology

  • Aims: to provide the basic biological and physiological background for understanding the effects of radiation on human tissues and resulting safety policies and therapy regimes.

Medical imaging fundamentals

  • Aims: to introduce students to the major medical imaging technique employed in hospitals and enable students to develop a basic familiarity with imaging subspecialty to the general concepts of imaging science, including signal processing, system performance, linear system theory, digital image processing, image formation, reconstruction, quantification and decision theory.

Radiation physics

  • Aims: to give the students an understanding of the principles of radiation physics and more specifically a detailed knowledge of the physics of the ionizing radiations used for medical diagnostic purposes. This course is intended to give students a solid background for the other related courses.
  • Teacher: Luciano Bertocchi

Radiation dosimetry

  • Aims: to describe in detail the principles of  dosimetry, definitions of dosimetric quantities, the relationship between the various dosimetric quantities, the structure and operation of various types of dosimeters, the content of relevant code of practices for dosimetry measurements in diagnostic and interventional radiology and in radiation oncology.
  • Teacher: Renato Padovani

Physics of imaging detectors

  • Aims: to provide an understanding of the physics of detectors commonly used in X-ray and gamma ray imaging. This module is intended to complement the other related courses.
  • Teacher: Ralf Menk

Statistical analysis in medicine (2024)

  • Aim: to focuse on applications of statistics to Medicine and Medical Physics; the open-source software JASP will be used in order to analyze data.

Guided exercise at Trieste Hospital and Trieste University

  • University laboratory exercises: Luca Brombal, Federico Dogo
  • Hospital exercises: Paola Bregant (coordinator), Rossella Vidimari, Marco Signoriello, Stefano Ren Kaiser, Maria Rosa Fornasier, Mara Severgnini