Teaching Methodologies
Theoretical-practical classes are on a record expository with students’ interaction about quality control of each of
the Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy equipment and the recommendations and existing regulations,
simultaneously with the creation of exercise that will enable the student to analyze and evaluate the results
obtained in carrying out these tests. The evaluation will be by two written tests.
Program
Concepts of control and quality management
Regulations, legislation and recommendations for quality control and clinical audit
Diagnostic Reference Levels establishment
Quality control of equipment held:
• General Radiology
• Mammography
• Fluoroscopy
• Computed Tomography
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Bone Densitometry
Quality control conducted to Nuclear Medicine equipment:
• Gamma Camera
• PET
Quality control conducted to Radiotherapy equipment:
• simulator
• linear accelerators
• HDR
• brachytherapy seeds
Special techniques
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
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T. J. Bushberg, J. A. Seibert, E. M. Leidholdt, J.M. Boon, The essential physics of medical imaging (2002), 2nd
Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/nuclear/radiation_protection/publications_en.htm
http://www.acr.org/quality-safety/standards-guidelines
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International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 2006, Nuclear Medicine Resources Manual
Lima, J.J. Pedroso de. Nuclear medicine physics / edited by J.J. Pedroso de Lima
World Health Organisation (1988). Quality Assurance in Radiotherapy. Geneva
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (1994). Comprehensive QA for radiation oncology: Report of AAPM
Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group 40. Medical Physics 21: 581-618.
IAEA (2000), Lessons learned from accidental exposures in radiotherapy, Safety Reports Series nº 17, Austria.