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Therapie et radio-elements - Therapy and radioisotopes

3EAB7 Therapie et radio-elements - Therapy and radioisotopes Electronics and Applied Physics S9
Lessons : 15 h TD : 5 h TP : 0 h Project : 0 h Total : 20 h
Co-ordinator : Jean-Claude Angelique
Prerequisite
Some notions about ionizing radiation and their interactions with matter.
Course Objectives
Know the basic principles of the techniques used in therapy.
To know the techniques of production of radioelements used in diagnostic imaging and in therapy.
Syllabus
teaching by a radiophysicist and an engineer from the François Baclesse Oncology Center:
1-Radiotherapy and Radiophysics
Introduction (The Baclesse Center)
 - Radiobiology
 - External radiotherapy
 - Brachytherapy
 - The future of Radiotherapy
 - The professions of Radiophysics
2-Therapeutic applications of radiation
Radiation / matter interactions
(Charged particles, Photons, Fluence, Kerma, Dose ...)
Photon beam in water (RP, RTM, FOC ...)
Electron beam in the water
The tools of Radiophysics
- Special techniques in RTE
- Tomotherapy Radiosurgery / Cyberknife
- Brachytherapy
- Intraoperative radiotherapy

Biomedical engineering / instrumentation
 - Introduction
 
- Medical devices
 - Medical flow of the patient (From diagnosis to therapy)
 - PACS / R & V networks

Radio-elements used in medicine: imaging and therapy
Properties, production (reactor, accelerator) use, management. Cross section , biological half lifes.
Practical work (TD or TP)
Diagnostic medicine and therapy
Acquired skills
Knowledge of technologies used in the medical field and more particularly in therapy. Knowledge of different radioisotope production techniques and their uses in medicine (diagnostic or therapeutic imaging).
Bibliography
Non renseigné

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