The Physical Methods in Biology and Medicine

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Course ID:	1100-3BB21
Erasmus code / ISCED:	13.203 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0533) Physics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	The Physical Methods in Biology and Medicine
Name in Polish:	Metody fizyczne w biologii i medycynie
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Physics
Course groups:	Astronomy (1st level); Elective courses Astronomy, individual path; elective courses Physics (1st level); elective courses Physics, individual path; elective courses
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Prerequisites (description):	The student, who is going to attend the lecture should have complete the following courses: 1. Fizykę z Matematyką cz I. (Physics and Mathematics part I) 2. Fizykę z Matematyką cz II. (Physics and Mathematics part II)
Short description:	The aim of this lecture is to provide the students with basics of physical knowledge about modern medical diagnosis and therapy methods which are currently used in Medicine and Biomedical Science. The course is addressed mainly to the students of Molecular Biophysics and to all other students, who are interested in physics, biology and medicine.
Full description:	The students get know, about physical phenomena which are applied in medical diagnosis and therapy methods which are currently used in Medicine and Biomedical Science. Program of the lecture. The lecture is divided into following sections: 1. x-ray Computed Tomography. 2. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). 3. Positron Emission Tomography (PET). 4. The Basics of Ultrasonography (USG). 5. The bioelectrical activity (specially electrical activity of heart and brain). 6. The Lasers in medicine. 7. Radioteraphy. 8. Fototeraphy. 9. Magnetoteraphy. 10. Magnetostimulation. Each section includes the information about physics phenomena applied in modern medical diagnosis and therapy. What kind of information or therapeutic effect one can get by means of the described method. The students will be provided also in basic information about construction of diagnosis and therapy equipment and side effect of using it.
Bibliography:	1. L. Chmielewski, J. L. Kulikowski, A. Nowakowski, Obrazowanie biomedyczne, Tom 8, Akademicka Oficyna Wydawnicza Exit. Jest to ósma pozycja wchodząca w skład 9-tomowej monografii Biocybernetyka i Inżynieria Biomedyczna 2000 pod redakcją Macieja Nałecza. 2. Praca zbiorowa pod redakcją Andrzeja Z. Hrynkiewicza i Eugeniusza Rokity, Fizyczne metody diagnostyki medycznej i terapii. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN Przed wykładem warto powtórzyć materiał z zakresu fizyki promieniowania jonizującego i elementów mechaniki kwantowej. Sugerowane w tym celu podręczniki to: 1. Ewa Skrzypczak, Zygmunt Szefliński. Wstęp do fizyki jądra atomowego i cząstek elementarnych. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. 2. Hermann Haken, Hans Christoph Wolf, Atomy i kwanty. Wprowadzenie do współczesnej spektroskopii atomowej. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN.
Learning outcomes:	Having completed the cource, student: THE KNOWLADGE 1. Knows the physical phenomena applied in modern biomedical imaging and therapy. 2. Knows what kind of inrmation one can get by means of the the given method. 3. Knows the basic construction and parameters of described diagnosis and therapic equipments. THE ABILITIES 1. Can describe the side-effect related to the application of the biomedical imaging and therapy. THE PRINCIPLES 1. Considers the significance of the physics in the modern biomedical imaging and therapy.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Test.
Practical placement:	none

This course is not currently offered.

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