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STUDY PLANS
2024/2025

Accelerators in Medicine and Technology

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Code Completion Credits Range
16UMT KZ 1 1P+0C
Course guarantor:
Kamil Augsten
Lecturer:
Kamil Augsten
Tutor:
Kamil Augsten
Supervisor:
Department of Dosimetry and Application of Ionizing Radiation
Synopsis:

Introduction to accelerators, their history and classification, and description of accelerators parameters. Description of ion sources, all types of linear accelerators (electro-static, induction, oscillating fields), circular accelerators (induction, oscillating fields, synchrotrons) and technologies connected to accelerators. The focus lies accelerators applications, foremost in medicine and technology (industry), but also in basic research, with examples of such applications

Requirements:

Knowledge of Basic nuclear physics, dosimery an detection of ionizing radiation.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Classification of accelerators

2. Ion sources

3. Linear accelerators

4. Circular accelerators

5. Applications of accelerators – medical and synchrotron radiation

6. Applications of accelerators – technology and basic research

7. Technologies on accelerators

Syllabus of tutorials:
Study Objective:

Knowledge:

Obtaining the knowledges about the fundamentals and types of nuclear reactors and accelerators and related problems of radiation protection.

Abilities:

Gaining knowledge about the principles and types of nuclear reactors and accelerators, with their use and the principles of radiation protection associated with their operation.

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] S. Humphries, Jr., Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration, Dover Publications 2012.

[2] E. Wilson, An Introduction to Particle Accelerators, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010.

Recommended references:

[3] H. Wiedemann: Particle Accelerator Physics (4th Edition), Springer 2015

Note:
Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:
06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
roomBR:215
Augsten K.
10:00–11:50
(lecture parallel1)
Břehová 7
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:
Time-table is not available yet
The course is a part of the following study plans:
Data valid to 2025-02-10
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