Course description
This is a short course that is meant to provide the most basic elements of biology and radiobiology to students trained in physics or engineering. It is part of the Master of Advanced Studies in Medical Physics at ICTP.Course program
- A. Y. 2014
- A. Y. 2015
- A. Y. 2016
- A. Y. 2017
- A. Y. 2018
- A. Y. 2019
- A. Y. 2020
- A. Y. 2021
- A.
Y. 2022
- A. Y. 2023 (course slides also available here)
Textbooks and useful links
Reference textbooks:- N. Suntharalingam, E.B. Podgorsak, J.H. Hendry: "Radiation Oncology Physics: A Handbook for Teachers and Students", IAEA (ISBN 92-0-107304-6) ch. 14, available here
- NIGMS Science Education: "Inside the Cell" (simple introduction to cell biology), available here
- E.J. Hall, A.J. Giaccia: "Radiobiology for the Radiologist", Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (2005)
Other useful books:
- Alpen: "Radiation Biophysics, 2nd ed.", Elsevier 1997 (link to publisher's site)
- Attix: "Introduction to Radiological Physics and Radiation Dosimetry", Wiley 1986 (link to publisher's site)
- Saha: "Physics and Radiobiology of Nuclear Medicine" Springer 2006 (link to publisher's site)
- Rensberger: "Instant Biology" Fawcett Books 1996 (nice, simple introduction to Biology, you can find it, e.g., here or here)
- Tubiana: "Introduction To Radiobiology" CRC Press 2005 (link to publisher's site)
- Free Medical Physics books from the Physics World Discovery series (IOP)
Miscellaneous course materials
- A compilation of alpha/beta values from Hall and Giaccia
- Tables of alpha/beta values from Williams, Denekamp and Fowler, Int. J. Radiation Oncology Biol. Phys. 11 (1985) 87
Useful links
- Simple summary of basic radiotherapy concepts (from the ACS)
- Chemotherapy
principles
- General
principles of radiation therapy
- Enciclopedia of Medical Physics and Multilingual Dictionary of Terms (EMITEL)
- Radiopaedia
Blogs:
Links to scientific journals:
Exams
Examinations are written and students must be able to answer a set of simple questions and discuss a few topics in free form.Archive of past written
tests (text + solution)
- April 10th 2015
- April 20th 2015
- April 15th 2016
- May 3rd 2016
- May 2nd 2017
- June 15th 2017
- December 13th 2017