COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HEALTH PHYSICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
NÜK 0511 HEALTH PHYSICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MAHMUT A. ASLANI

Offered to

Industrial Ph.D. Program In Advanced Biomedical Technologies

Course Objective

The aim of this course for the students coming from different disciplinary is to able to comprehend for the radiation, radioactivity types, ionizing radioactivity, description terms and used units, the sources of environmental radiation, effects of natural radiation, the internal and external effects of ionizing radiation, the interactions of ionizing radiation the sources of terrestrial radiation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to comprehend the importance of radiation and radioactivity
2   Being able to describe the units of radiation and radioactivity
3   Being able to describe the mechanism of radioactive decay, decay kinetic and radioactive element series.
4   Being able to to comprehend internal and external effects of ionizing radiation and interactions of ionizing radiation
5   Being able to evaluate the molecular effects of radiation
6   Being able to explain the sources of terrestrial radioactivity and atmospheric radioactivity
7   Being able to assess analytical the effect of ionizing radioactivity

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 History of radioactivity,introduction to radioactivity and fundamental concepts, fundamental subject of health physics
2 Radioactivity decay mechanisms, alpha emission, beta emission and gamma-rays
3 Fundamental terms of radioactivity, definition, units for radioactivity and radiation (Units for Classical sysytem and System International and conversion factors)
4 Nuclear energy, magic numbers and importance of magic numbers, decay, radioactive element serials, half life and average life
5 Mid-term exam I
6 Ionizing radiation, external and internal effects of ionizing radiation, interactions and reaction of ionizing radiation
7 Several reactions of radiation on the molecules
8 Effect of radition on body water molecules, radiation dosimetry, effective half-life, ALARA principle
9 Natural radiation, sources of natural radiation, internal radiation sources, cosmic radiation, atmospheric interactions
10 Mid-term exam II
11 Terrestrial radition,primordial radionuclides, atmospheric radiation sourced by terrestrial radiation
12 Biological effect of radiation,effect of radiation on tissues and organs
13 Short information on radiation detection medium
14 Student reports and presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

UNSCEAR Reports, United Nations Publications, (2001)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE1 + MTE2/2 *0.40 +FIN *0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE1 + MTE2/2 *0.40 +RST *0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc.Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Aslani

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 5 60
Preparation for midterm exam 2 20 40
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Midterm 2 2 4
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 192

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.154
LO.24
LO.3455
LO.45
LO.554
LO.64
LO.745

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