Clinical Radiation Therapy Physics

This course consists exclusively in practice in radiation therapy performed at the hospital. The course therefore aims at making you familiar with typical tasks for a medical physicist at a radiotherapy department, and understand the role of the medical physicist in radiotherapy.

The course covers the clinical application of physical and biological processes for radiation therapy and is a continuation of the theoretical course in radiotherapy.
You will participate actively to patient-related activities, and acquire deep knowledge of the diagnostic process from input to definition of target volume, treatment planning and implementation.
After taking the course you will be able to describe the flow around the radiotherapy chain, use clinically applied treatment protocols, master the clinical application of previously acquired knowledge in diagnosis, treatment planning, optimization, dosimetry, image processing and statistics and give examples of how the theoretical knowledge of radiotherapy is applied in the clinical practice.

This is an advanced course given during the daytime. The course is included in the Master`s Programme in Medical Physics.


Teaching Format

The education consists of practical demonstrations at the radiotherapy department within the hospital and self-study.


Assessment

The course is examined through an oral presentation of an assignment.

Examiner

Eva Onjukka

Phone: +46 (0)765696744

E-mail: eva.onjukka@fysik.su.se

The schedule will be available no later than one month before the start of the course. We do not recommend print-outs as changes can occur. At the start of the course, your department will advise where you can find your schedule during the course.

The course does not have a common schedule. Instead the schedule is individual for each student and presented at the beginning of the course.

Note that the course literature can be changed up to two months before the start of the course.

This course has no course literature.

Course reports are displayed for the three most recent course instances.

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Course coordinator:
Eva Onjukka, e-mail: eva.onjukka@fysik.su.se

 

Academic advisor at the Department of Physics: studievagledare@fysik.su.se

Student office: studentexp@fysik.su.se

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