- Docente: Luciana Verni
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/36
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Nursing (cod. 8475)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Health Assistance (cod. 8879)
Learning outcomes
The student has basic knowledge in the field of diagnostic imaging and medical radio-biology, with particular attention to radiation protection.
Course contents
Outline of the history of radiation protection and the legislative framework of reference for the protection of health and the environment: from the discovery of x-rays to accidental events. The Legislative Decrees 106/09, 230/95 and 241/2000. Radioactivity, radiation and interactions with matter.
Effects of ionizing radiation: stochastic damage (somatic and genetic) deterministic damage. Irradiation in utero. "Chronic" and late effects of radiation.
Radiation protection doctrine: physical and medical surveillance of radiation protection in health workers.
Radiation protection doctrine: principles of radioprotection of the patient.
Readings/Bibliography
J.E. Coggle:biological effects of radiation, Ed. Minerva medica III edizione 1998.
Teaching methods
Lectures with the help of educational videos taken from the internet
Assessment methods
written (quiz)
Teaching tools
PC/beamer/power point
Office hours
See the website of Luciana Verni