I.C. Information technology, statistics and physics applied to radiological sciences
(objectives)
make the student develop the logic of statistical thinking and its application in real practice, associated with the understanding of the key role that Information Technology (IT) plays in the health professions. Understanding of the basic physical principles governing the radiological profession
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Code
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90173 |
Language
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Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Module: Medical statistics applied to radiological sciences
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The Medical Statistics course aims to introduce students to the logic of statistical thinking and its application in everyday life. The exposition of the topics will be oriented towards concrete problems of analysis and research, starting from schematic examples and then confronting real situations taken from the medical literature. The course aims to provide students with the necessary statistical tools to describe and analyze data, extract useful information and make informed decisions. Particular emphasis will be placed on statistical reasoning, interpretation and decision-making. To this end, more emphasis will be placed on conceptual understanding than on mechanical calculation, also in light of the wide choice of software available for analysis. The theory will be explained through practical exercises and didactic cases. In the final part of the course we will move on to the demonstration of use of some contemporary Software Suites in order to provide an operational basis for executing descriptive statistics and low-level inferential, in the belief that knowing firsthand to perform these simple tasks is the best way to open up to a conscious understanding of scientific literature.
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Language
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ENG |
Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Credits
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1
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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MED/01
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Contact Hours
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10
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Type of Activity
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Basic compulsory activities
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Teacher
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Weltert Luca Paolo
(syllabus)
The first part of the course will introduce the logic of statistics and experimental design. The concepts of probability calculation and combinatorial calculation will be introduced or recalled; although theoretically already in possession of the student, these steps are fundamental and will be used in the continuation of the course. In this phase the main probability distributions will be treated, including the binomial distribution, the Poisson distribution and the standard Normal and Normal distributions, but more than the single mathematical process,we will try making the student aware of the deep motivation of the medical statistics, as a science, and its application in practice, as well as the risks of its incorrect understanding. In the second part of the course the descriptive statistics and its methodology will be addressed. It will be shown how to recognize the type of data and how to summarize them in appropriate indexes. The student will learn how to calculate position measurements (mean, median, fashion), variability (variance, standard deviation), coefficient of variation (CV), percentiles and their use. It will also make extensive use of practical examples to define a good descriptive statistic and a defective or deceptive descriptive statistic. In the final part of the course the general principles of statistical inference will be treated. Cases of sample distribution, type I and II errors, power of a test and operating curve will be introduced. We will then move on to parametric tests - Student's t-test, ANOVA with 1 and 2 classification criteria, non-parametric tests: - Wilcoxon test, Mann-Whitney test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Friedman test, median test, chi-square test, Fisher exact test. We will also provide the basic concepts of regression and analysis of time dependent variability with mention of Kaplann Meyer functions, log rank and Cox regression.
(reference books)
1) Notes of the lessons 2) Stanton A. Glantz: Statistics for Bio-medical disciplines - ed. McGraw-Hill 3) Sidney Siegel, N. John Castellan Jr.: - Non parametric statistics - ed. McGraw-Hill 4) Resources and links from the Internet with particular reference to the use of the PubMEd portal
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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Traditional
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Attendance
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Mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Written test
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Module: Information technology applied to radiological sciences
(objectives)
The course intends to provide students with the basic knowledge to understand the essential role of Information Technology (IT) in our society, and specifically in the context of health-related technical professions.
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Language
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ENG |
Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Credits
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2
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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INF/01
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Contact Hours
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20
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Type of Activity
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Basic compulsory activities
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Teacher
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D'Ambrogio Andrea
(syllabus)
⦁ Introduction to IT systems ⦁ Th hardware part of IT systems (CPU, memory, Input/Output) ⦁ The software part of IT systems: system software (operating systems and utility programs), application software (word processing, spreadsheet, database, etc.)
(reference books)
Deborah Morley and Charles S. Parker, Understanding Computers: Today and Tomorrow (16th edition) - Cengage Learning
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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Mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Written test
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Module: Data processing and storage
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The course intends to provide students with the basic knowledge to understand the role of Information Systems and their lifecycle, specifically focusing on database management systems.
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Language
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ENG |
Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Credits
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2
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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ING-INF/05
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Contact Hours
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20
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Type of Activity
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Core compulsory activities
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Teacher
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D'Ambrogio Andrea
(syllabus)
⦁ Introduction to IT systems ⦁ Th hardware part of IT systems (CPU, memory, Input/Output) ⦁ The software part of IT systems: system software (operating systems and utility programs), application software (word processing, spreadsheet, database, etc.)
(reference books)
Deborah Morley and Charles S. Parker, Understanding Computers: Today and Tomorrow (16th edition) - Cengage Learning
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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From to |
Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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Mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Written test
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Module: Basics of physics and radiations physics
(objectives)
At the end of the course the student must have acquired basic knowledge of principles of physics necessary to understand how the major systems of the human body works and the correct usage of biomedical instruments with particular attention to applications regarding this degree course.
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Language
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ENG |
Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Credits
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3
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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FIS/07
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Contact Hours
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30
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Type of Activity
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Basic compulsory activities
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Teacher
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Indovina Iole
(syllabus)
Mechanics
Chapter 1: Introduction, Measurement, Estimating
1.4: Measurement and Uncertainty; Significant Figures 1.5: Units, Standards, and SI Units 1.6: Converting Units 1.8: Dimensions and Dimensional Analysis
Chapter 4: Dynamics: Newton's Laws of Motion
4.1: Force 4.2: Newton's First Law of Motion 4.3: Mass 4.4: Newton's Second Law of Motion 4.5: Newton's Third Law of Motion
Chapter 6: Work and Energy
6.1: Work Done by a Constant Force 6.3: Kinetic Energy and the Work-Energy Principle 6.4: Potential Energy 6.5: Conservative and Nonconservative Forces 6.6: Mechanical Energy and its Conservation 6.7: Problem Solving Using Conservation of Mechanical Energy 6.8: Other Forms of Energy: Energy Transformations and the Law of Conservation of Energy 6.10: Power
Electricity and Magnetism
Chapter 16: Electric Charge and Electric Field
16.1: Static Electricity; Electric Charge and its Conservation 16.2: Electric Charge in the Atom 16.3: Insulators and Conductors 16.4: Induced Charge; the Electroscope 16.5: Coulomb's Law 16.6: Solving Problems Involving Coulomb's Law and Vectors 16.7: The Electric Field 16.8: Field Lines 16.9: Electric Fields and Conductors
Chapter 17: Electric Potential
17.1: Electric Potential Energy and Potential Differences 17.2: Relation Between Electric Potential and Electric Field 17.3: Equipotential Lines 17.4: The Electron Volt, a Unit of Energy 17.5: Electric Potential Due to Point Charges 17.7: Capacitance 17.8: Dielectrics 17.9: Storage of Electric Energy
Chapter 18: Electric Currents
18.1: The Electric Battery 18.2: The Electric Current 18.3: Ohm's Law: Resistance and Resistors 18.4: Resistivity 18.5: Electric Power 18.8: Microscopic View of Electric Current
Chapter 19: DC Circuits
19.1: EMF and Terminal Voltage 19.2: Resistors in Series and in Parallel 19.3: Kirchhoff's Rules 19.4: EMFs in Series and in Parallel; Charging a Battery 19.5: Circuits Containing Capacitors in Series and in Parallel 19.6: RC Circuits-Resistor and Capacitor in Series
Chapter 20: Magnetism
20.1: Magnets and Magnetic Fields 20.2: Electric Current Produce Magnetic Fields 20.3: Force on an Electric Current in a Magnetic Field: Definition of B 20.4: Force on a Electric Charge Moving in a Magnetic Field 20.5: Magnetic Field Due to a Long Straight Wire 20.8: Ampere's Law
Chapter 21: Electromagnetic Induction and Faraday's Law
21.1: Induced EMF 21.2: Faraday's Law of Induction; Lenz's Law 21.3: EMF Induced in a Moving Conductor 21.4: Changing Magnetic Flux Produces an Electric Field
Vibrations and Waves
Chapter 11: Vibrations and Waves
11.7: Wave Motion 11.8: Types of Waves: Transverse and Longitudinal 11.9: Energy Transported by Waves 11.10: Intensity Related to Amplitude and Frequency 11.11: Reflection and Transmission of Waves 11.12: Interference; Principle of Superposition 11.13: Standing Waves; Resonance
Chapter 22: Electromagnetic Waves
22.1: Changing Electric Fields Produce Magnetic Fields; Maxwell's Equations 22.2: Production of Electromagnetic Waves 22.3: Light as an Electromagnetic Wave and the Electromagnetic Spectrum 22.5: Energy in EM Waves
Chapter 24: The Wave Nature of Light
24.4: The Visible Spectrum and Dispersion
Chapter 25: Optical Instruments
25-11: X-Rays and X-Ray Diffraction 25-12: X-Ray Imaging and Computed Tomography (CT Scan)
Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity
Chapter 27: Early Quantum Theory and Models of the Atom
27.10: Early Models of the Atom 27.12: The Bohr Model
Chapter 30: Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity
30.1: Structure and Properties of the Nucleus 30.2: Binding Energy and Nuclear Forces 30.3: Radioactivity 30.4: Alpha Decay 30.5: Beta Decay 30.6: Gamma Decay 30.7: Conservation of Nucleon Number and Other Conservation Laws 30.8: Half-Life and Rate of Decay 30.9: Calculations Involving Decay Rates and Half-life
Chapter 31: Nuclear Energy; Effects and Uses of Radiation
31.1: Nuclear Reaction and the Transmutation of Elements 31.5: Measurement of Radiation-Dosimetry 31.9: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
(reference books)
Douglas C. Giancoli “PHYSICS: Principles with Applications” Seventh edition, Pearson Education. Inc
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Traditional
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Mandatory
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Written test
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