Syllabus

Medical Physics Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme (Open Elective-1)

Medical Physics detail syllabus for various departments, 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17BM564), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.

For all other open elective-1 syllabus for vtu be 2017 scheme you can visit Open Elective-1 syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme Subjects. The detail syllabus for medical physics is as follows.

Module 1:

Biomechanics: Properties of materials, the principles of equilibrium, Stress analysis, Structural instability, Mechanical work and energy, Kinematics and Kinetics, Dimensional analysis: the scaling process in biomechanics. (Text 1: Chapter 1).

Module 2:

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Module 3:

Physics of the Senses: Cutaneous sensation, the Chemical senses, Audition, Vision, Psychophysics. (Text 1: Chapter 3).

Module 4:

Radioisotopes and Nuclear Medicine: Atomic structure, Production of isotopes, Principles of measurement, Non-imaging investigation: Principles, Non-imaging examples, Radionuclide imaging, Table of applications. (Text 1: Chapter 6).

Module 5:

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Course Outcomes:

After studying this course, students will able to:

  1. Describe Biomechanical systems in the human body.
  2. Discuss the fluid mechanical systems in the human body.
  3. Analyze the physics of the Senses.
  4. Explain the diagnostic uses of Radioisotopes.
  5. Describe the tissue interactions with electromagnetic fields.
  6. Apply the static and dynamic measurements for analysis of mechanics of human body.

Question paper pattern:

  • The question paper will have TEN questions.
  • Each full question carry16marks
  • There will be TWO full questions (with maximum of THREE sub questions) from each module.
  • Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
  • The students will have to answer FIVE full questions, selecting ONE full question from each module.

Text Books:

  1. Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering- B H Brown, R H Smallwood, D C Barber, P V Lawford, D R Hose, Taylor & Francis Group, 1999

Reference Books:

  1. J. R. Cameron & J. G. Skofronick, Medical Physics , John Wiley and Sons, 1978.
  2. Paul Davidovits Physics in Biology and Medicine , Academic Press, 3rd Edition, 2007.

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