Fundamentos de Física Médica em Diagnóstico e Terapia (Fcul)

Objectives

- Identify and understand the physical and engineering principles that underpin different diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. - Familiarize students with recent technological advances in diagnosis and therapy. - Acquire the fundamentals for more specific curricular units.

Syllabus

Theoretical Component -Diagnosis: -Radiology (conventional radiology, types of detectors, mammography, fluoroscopy, CT, helical CT) - Nuclear Medicine (Physical principles, radiation detection, scintigraphy, SPECT collimators, PET, Dedicated systems) -Magnetic Resonance (physical principles) , FID, T1 and T2 signals, sequences, spatial coding, image reconstruction) -Ultrasounds (physical principles, types of transducers, acquisition modes, echo-doppler) -Multimodal systems (PET-CT, PET-MR. PET- US, RM-EEG) - Measurement of electrical and magnetic signals (EMG; ECG; EEG; MEG) -Intervention: -Biomaterials -Radiotherapy -Guided surgery.Theoretical-Practical Component Resolution of exercises on: -interaction of radiation with matter -radiological contrast -mammography -CT -SPECT -PET -MRI