ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Morphological Science, Applied Physics
Areas: Human Anatomy and Embryology, Electromagnetism
Center Faculty of Physics
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
Learning Results:
In this subject, the student must distinguish between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, as well as assess electromagnetic pollution in the environment and know the different therapeutic applications of non-ionizing radiation at thermal and non-thermal levels.
The specific competencies of the subject would be the following:
- Review the basic concepts of electromagnetic theory and learn about the interaction of electromagnetic fields with biological systems.
-Know the electromagnetic behavior when the size of the object of study is much smaller, of the order or much larger than the wavelength.
- Introduce electromagnetic dosimetry and the specific absorption rate, understand its dependence on the electrical properties of the living being and know the experimental and numerical methods (FDTD) for its estimation.
- Know the regulations for current electromagnetic exposure, which for a certain operating frequency, impose restrictions on both the electric and magnetic field intensities and the power density of the incident electromagnetic wave.
- Discuss the thermal and athermal biological effects of electromagnetic fields.
- Review the state of the art and current challenges in the application of electromagnetic fields in medicine.
1. Ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.
2. Heating mechanism due to electromagnetic radiation.
3. Heat treatment by diathermy and hyperthermia.
4. Noxious thermal effects.
5. Athermic effects of electromagnetic radiation.
6. Specific absortion rate.
7. Standards and regulations.
C. Furse, D.A. Christensen, C.H. Durney, "Basic introduction to Bioelectromagnetics", 2nd Ed., CRC Press, 2008.
- F.S. Barnes, B. Greenebaum, "Handbook of biological effects of electromagnetics", 3rd Ed., CRC Press, 2007. Vol. 1: "Biological and medical aspects of electromagnetic fields". Vol. 2: "Bioengineering and biophysical aspects of electromagnetic fields".
- "Mobile Telephones: Networks, Applications, and Performance". Edited by Nova Science Publisher, Inc. Eds.: A.C. Harper, R.V. Burees, 2008.
- "Electromagnetic Fields: Principles, Engineering, Applications and Biophysical Effects". Edited by Nova Science Publisher, Inc. Eds.: K. Myung-Hee, Y. Sang-Ook, 2013.
Specific skills:
- Acquire the basic knowledge of the interaction of non-ionizing radiation and living beings: health effects and studies in experimental animal models.
- Knowledge of legislation on electromagnetic fields. Studies of international, national and local, non-governmental organizations.
The matter will be held during class lectures, using all the media to be available (waxed, transparencies and video projector) and make the subject enjoyable and training for the student. It will give the student all basic material for the study of matter. Students will have the corresponding tutorials.
The teaching of the expository and interactive classes will be preferably in person. Tutorials may be face-to-face or virtual, and a tutorial forum will be set up in the virtual classroom for specific questions on the subject. In order to carry out remote activities, a virtual classroom will be opened beforehand and the institutional tools and platforms will be used (Virtual Classroom-Moodle and Microsoft Teams).
Class attendance will be compulsory and the evaluation will be continuous: it will be done through the delivery of exercise bulletins and / or a monographic work of the recent bibliography of interest for the course.
The final tests will have face-to-face CHARACTERISTICS. "The resources of the institutional platforms (Virtual-Moodle Classroom and Microsoft Teams) may also be used for continuous evaluation".
Class attendance is mandatory and continuous evaluation will be made by delivery of homework set and/or a monograph work related with recent literature of interest to the course.
There will be a final exam on the date given by the dean for students who have not passed the continuous assessment or those one that want to improve the qualification.
Evaluable activity:
- Homework set => Weight until 40 %
- Monograph work => Weight until 60 %
It will be valued (at the teacher's discretion) the participation and attitude in the work developed by the student in the different face-to-face or telematic activities of continuous evaluation of the subject.
Cast hours:
Theory: 20h
Seminaries: 10h
Tutorial: 1h
Personal work and another activities: 44h
Student total work: 75h
Students are advised to view the class notes as well as the presentations of the classes that have previously been uploaded to the virtual classroom by the teachers. It is also advisable to carry out the proposed activities by the teacher as well as to use the supporting bibliography of the subject recommended at the beginning of the course.
Francisco Jose Ares Pena
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Electromagnetism
- Phone
- 881814016
- francisco.ares [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Maria Elena Lopez Martin
Coordinador/a- Department
- Morphological Science
- Area
- Human Anatomy and Embryology
- Phone
- 881812310
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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