450-8418/01 – Radiotherapeutical Apparatuses (RTP)
Gurantor department | Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering | Credits | 2 |
Subject guarantor | Anonymizovaná Osoba | Subject version guarantor | Anonymizovaná Osoba |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Optional |
Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2010/2011 | Year of cancellation | 2021/2022 |
Intended for the faculties | FEI | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master, Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Goal of this course is make students acquainted with basic types of medical technology in use for radiotherapy, physical principles of their function, proper use and maintenance.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Summary
Basic type of medical equipment in radiotherapy, physical principles of their function, proper use and maintenance.
Compulsory literature:
1.GREENE, D., WILIAMS, P.C Linear Accelerators for Radiation Therapy.
2.KARZMARK, C. J., MORTON, R. J. A Primer on Theory and Operation of Linear Accelerators in Radiation Therapy.
3.KARZMARK, C. J., NUNAN, C. S., TANABE E Medical Electron Accelerators.
4.KHAN, F. M. The Physics of Radiation Therapy.
Recommended literature:
1.GREENE, D., WILIAMS, P.C Linear Accelerators for Radiation Therapy.
2.KARZMARK, C. J., MORTON, R. J. A Primer on Theory and Operation of Linear Accelerators in Radiation Therapy.
3.KARZMARK, C. J., NUNAN, C. S., TANABE E Medical Electron Accelerators.
4.KHAN, F. M. The Physics of Radiation Therapy.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Credit will be awarded for participation in the teaching and successful control test
E-learning
Other requirements
There are not defined other requirements for students
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
- Instrumentation for radiotherapy, the distribution apparatus
- Radiotherapy simulator computer systems for planning RT
- The feed, the feed for the RT, cobalt irradiator structure
- Construction of therapeutic X-ray, accessories and fixation devices
- Construction of particle accelerators-linear accelerator,
- Apparatus for unconventional therapy, neutron generators, proton accelerators
- Construction equipment for the AFL, the security elements in external therapy and brachytherapy, using, operating, servicing radiation techniques, preventive examinations
- Safety rules and regulations relating to the maintenance of radiation technique,
documentation is kept on the instrument-technician, emergency rule
- Electric Meter-volmetr, oscilloscope, electrometer kVp meter, mAs meter
- Laser sights, the construction of radioactive sealed sources of ionizing radiation, basics of metrology, calibration of the radiation beam. X-ray, the brake beam, the electrons
- Determination of basic parameters of the bundle - half-layer, homogeneity, symmetry, output factors, wedge factors, transmission units, in vivo dosimetry - types of detectors, calibration and interpretation of results
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction