Course: Basics of biophysics and radiobiology

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Course title Basics of biophysics and radiobiology
Course code FZS/ZBRA
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Lindauer Vojtěch, Ing.
  • Beneš Jiří, prof. MUDr. RNDr. CSc.
Course content
Lectures: 1) Properties and interactions of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, magnetic field and its detection, summary overview 2) Principles of molecular biophysics (latent states, transport phenomena) 3) Blood circulation and application of molecular biophysics (application of laws to blood circulation and respiration, sedimentation, rheology, shunts, murmurs) 4) Bioacoustics (physical and physiological acoustics, hearing biophysics, ultrasound (ultrasound) and physical properties of ultrasound waves, shock waves) 5) Electrical manifestations of organism (membrane potential, action potential, basics of electrodiagnostic methods, effects of electric current on organism) 6) Bioenergetics (heat loss of organism, therapeutic use of heat, temperature measurement and regulation) 7) Optics (human eye, biophysics of vision), optical devices in diagnostics and therapy 8) Non-ionizing forms of radiation used in therapy, specific biological effects of laser action 9) Mechanisms of biological effect of ionizing radiation, dose-effect relationship, estimation of radiation damage 10) Radiotherapy (radiation disease, stereotactic radiation), early (nondeterministic) and late (stochastic) effects 11) Adjustment of sublethal radiation damage and estimation of tolerance of further irradiation 12) Effect of ionizing radiation on human reproduction, genetic effects of ionizing radiation 13) Pathogenetic forms of acute radiation sickness, prophylaxis and their treatment 14) Late consequences of external and internal contamination by radioactive substances

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture
  • Contacts hours - 28 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to clarify the radiobiological nature of individual types of external radiation damage and contamination with radioactive substances. The course also focuses on forms of acute radiation sickness, the risk of chronic radiation sickness, and issues related to radiation events.
Students will learn about the effects of physical factors acting on the human organism, about individual biophysical principles of events and processes with an explanation of the basic mechanisms of effects on living systems focused on ionizing radiation, about the dependence of biological effects on the type and dose of radiation, the distribution of the dose over time and the distribution of the dose in the organism with the importance of reparative processes.
Prerequisites
Preconditions are frased in the annotation of the course and in the curriculum of the studying programme.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam

Classified credit: - oral exam.
Recommended literature
  • BENEŠ, J., P. STRÁNSKÝ a F. VÍTEK. Základy lékařské biofyziky. Praha: Karolinum, 2007. ISBN 978-80-246-1386-4.
  • BENEŠ, Jiří, Daniel JIRÁK a František VÍTEK. Základy lékařské fyziky. Praha: Karolinum, 2015. ISBN 978-80-246-2645-1.
  • BENEŠ, Jiří, Jaroslava KYMPLOVÁ a František VÍTEK. Základy fyziky pro lékařské a zdravotnické obory: pro studium i praxi. Praha: Grada, 2015. ISBN 978-80-247-4712-5.
  • BENEŠ, Jiří. Základy lékařské biofyziky. Praha: Karolinum, 2011. ISBN 978-80-246-2034-3.
  • FELTL, David a Jakub CVEK. Klinická radiobiologie. Havlíčkův Brod: Tobiáš, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7311-103-8.
  • HRAZDIRA, I., MORNSTEIN, V., ŠKORPÍKOVÁ, J. Základy biofyziky a zdravotnické techniky. Brno: Neptun, 2006. ISBN 80-868-5001-3.
  • MATOUŠEK, J., I. URBAN a P. LINHART. CBRN: detekce a monitorování, fyzická ochrana, dekontaminace.. Ostrava: Sdružení požárního a bezpečnostního inženýrství, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7385-048-7.
  • NAVRÁTIL, Leoš a Jozef ROSINA. Medicínská biofyzika. Praha: Grada, 2019. ISBN 978-80-271-0209-9.
  • ROSINA, Jozef. Biofyzika: pro zdravotnické a biomedicínské obory. Praha: Grada, 2013. ISBN 978-80-247-4237-3.
  • SÚKUPOVÁ, Lucie. Radiační ochrana při rentgenových výkonech - to nejdůležitější pro praxi. Praha: Grada, 2018. ISBN 978-80-271-0709-4.
  • ŠINKOROVÁ, Zuzana a Leoš NAVRÁTIL. Biomedicínská detekce ionizujícího záření: organizace zdravotnické péče po zevní kontaminaci radionuklidy. Praha: ČVUT, 2014. ISBN 978-80-01-05626-4.


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