2024-2025 Catalog

RAD-416 Radiation Biology

Topics covered include: physio-chemical aspects of energy absorption, the sequence of events after irradiation occurring on the molecular, cellular and organized tissue levels, radiation response and repair of eukaryotic cells, effects of radiation quality, dose rate, environmental conditions, cell cycle kinetics, tumor and normal cell population dynamics, radiation-induced carcinogenesis and mutagenesis, tumor pathophysiology and radiobiology, and recent advances in experimental radiation oncology.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Student has satisfied all of the following Students who specified one or more of these Programs of Study or Program Foci Radiation Science Minor Or ( Student has satisfied all of the following Students who specified one or more of these Programs of Study or Program Foci Radiation Science Major BS, Radiation Therapy Certificate, Radiation Therapy Major BS And Student has satisfied all of the following Student has completed any of the following course(s) PHYS 315 - Radiation Physics I, RAD 315 - Radiation Physics I )

Offered

Spring