VLLF111 Medical physics - advanced exercises

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Vojtěch Mornstein, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Daniel Vlk, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Vladan Bernard, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Ing. Marek Dostál, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
MUDr. Tomáš Jůza (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Daniel Vlk, CSc.
Department of Biophysics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Mgr. Daniel Vlk, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Biophysics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Prerequisites
VLBF011p Biophysics-lect.
Biophysics exam
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 24 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/24, only registered: 0/24, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/24
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able: use informatics for search and sorting of professional informations; operate advanced diagnostic and laboratory devices; evaluate obtained data by the biophysical methods in light of a scientific, effective, safe and efficient attitude to their use; discriminate possible usage of the biopfysical techniques and medical devices in practice;
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students should be able: use informatics for search and sorting of professional informations; operate advanced diagnostic and laboratory devices; evaluate obtained data by the biophysical methods in light of a scientific, effective, safe and efficient attitude to their use; discriminate possible usage of the biopfysical techniques and medical devices in practice;
Syllabus
  • Practical exercises.
  • Future of informatics in medicine. Searching of a scientific informations.
  • Safe and effective usage of a diagnostics and therapeutic methods.
  • Computerised simulations in medical education.
  • Nanotechnology in medicine.
  • Luminiscence and lasers in medicine. Fluorescent microscopy.
  • Experimental tasks:
  • 1. Measuring of a elektromagnetical parameters of environment – measuring of magnetic field and kvantification of a external sources of elektromagnetical radiation.
  • 2. Measuring of a blood flow velocity in peripheral arterias.
  • 3. Diagnostics ultrasound with the model for duplex imaging.
  • 4. Diagnostic ultrasound - 3D imaging; controlled cathetrisation of a model of vessel.
  • 5. Termography – cooling test.
  • 6. Termography – emissivity measuring.
  • 7. Evaluation of parameters of X-rays.
  • 8. Perimetry and Cornea topography.
  • 9. Spektrophotometry and elektrophoresis of nucleic acids.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • HRAZDIRA, Ivo, Vojtech MORNSTEIN, Aleš BOUREK and Jiřina ŠKORPÍKOVÁ. Fundamentals of Biophysics and Medical Technology. 1. vydání 1. dotisk. Brno: Muni Press, 2009, 317 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-4228-5. info
  • MORNSTEIN, Vojtěch, Ivo HRAZDIRA and Aleš BOUREK. Lékařská fyzika a informatika : (se zaměřením na zubní lékařství). [1. vydání]. Brno: Neptun, 2007, 352 stran. ISBN 9788086850023. info
  • HRAZDIRA, Ivo and Vojtěch MORNSTEIN. Lékařská biofyzika a přístrojová technika (Medical biophysics and technology). 1st ed. Brno: Neptun, 2001, 395 pp. ISBN 80-902896-1-4. info
Teaching methods
Practical exercises and seminars
Assessment methods
Basic fulfilling requirements are the full atendance in the lessons. For all tasks students must elaborate report including critical assessment used methods.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 30.
Information on course enrolment limitations: 2 skupiny
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, spring 2019, spring 2020, spring 2021, spring 2022, spring 2023, spring 2024.
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