Courses persons responsible
Hannu Eskola

Lecturers
Hannu Eskola

Implementations

	Period 1	Period 2	Period 3	Period 4	Period 5	Summer
Lecture	4 h/week	-	-	-	-	-
Exercise	1 h/week	-	-	-	-	-
Exam

(Timetable for academic year 2007-2008)

Objectives
To give fundamentals of radiation physics for the diagnostic and therapeutic use of radiation.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Basis of radiation physics: x-ray physics and nuclear physics, radiation sources, radiation units, dosimetry.
2.	Interaction mechanisms of radiation with material.
3.	Radiation detectors.

Requirements for completing the course
Final exam.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Study material

Type	Name	Auhor	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability...	Exam material	Language
Lecture slides	Radiation Physics	Hannu Eskola			On the Internet.	Yes

Prerequisites
Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

Remarks

Other study material is announced on the course homepage.

Distance learning

- In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
- In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc
- The course utilizes a learning platform, which? Moodle

- Contact teaching: 50 %
- Distance learning: 10 %
- Proportion of a student's independent study: 40 %

Scaling

Methods of instruction	Hours
Lectures	60
Exercises	18

Other scaled	Hours
Exam/midterm exam	3
Total sum	81

Correspondence of content
LTT-3306 Radiation and Safety

Course homepage

Last modified	23.04.2007
Modified by	Juha Nousiainen