Department of Medical Physics

Established by Presidential Decree (PD) 459/87 (Government Gazette/FEK 215/8-12-1987)
Internal Operating Regulation: Ministerial Decision (YA) 52193/Β1/21-5-2007, Government Gazette (FEK) 852/1-6-2007
Ministerial Installation Decision: Υ4α/84296/12-9-2012, Government Gazette (FEK) 2599/Β/25-09-2012
Academic Fields of Faculty Members
Medical Physics, Medical Physics – Medical Informatics, Medical Physics – Computational Medicine
Faculty Members 
Athanasia Kotini, Professor of Medical Physics, Director (Contact details: +30 2551030519, akotini@med.duth.gr)
Eleni Kaldoudi, Professor of Medical Physics – Medical Informatics (Contact details: +30 2551030329, kaldoudi@med.duth.gr)
Adam Adamopoulos, Professor of Medical Physics – Computational Medicine (Contact details: +30 2551030501, adam@med.duth.gr)
Efstratios Karavasilis, Assistant Professor of Medical Physics (Contact details: +30 2551030547, ekaravas@med.duth.gr)
Laboratory Teaching Staff 
Triantafyllos Gemousakakis (Contact details: +30 2551030681, tgemousa@med.duth.gr)
Contact Details
Laboratory of Medical Physics, Building 2 (Preclinical years), Ground floor,
Faculty of Medicine, University Campus, 68100 Alexandroupoli
Education
A. Undergraduate Courses
  • Medical Physics (Compulsory course, 2nd Semester, Faculty of Medicine, DUTH)
  • Internet and Health (Elective course, 1st Semester, Faculty of Medicine, DUTH)
  • Biophysics (Elective course, 3rd Semester, Faculty of Medicine, DUTH)
  • Physics for Biological Sciences (Compulsory course, 1st Semester, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, DUTH)
B. Postgraduate Programs (MSc)
  • Inter-University – Inter-Departmental Postgraduate Program “Medical Physics – Radiation Physics”: Organized by the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physics, and Department of Biology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Faculty of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Faculty of Medicine of DUTH, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ioannina, and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Crete.
    • Director: Professor P. Karaiskos, Faculty of Medicine, University of Athens
  • Inter-University Postgraduate Program “Biomedical Informatics”: Organized by the Faculty of Medicine of DUTH and the “Athena” Research Center.
    • Director: Professor E. Kaldoudi, Faculty of Medicine, DUTH

Postgraduate Program “Research and Innovation in Health Sciences”: Organized by the Faculty of Medicine of DUTH.

  • Director: Professor E. Kaldoudi, Faculty of Medicine, DUTH
  • Computational Medicine – Artificial Life – Bioinformatics – Neuroinformatics
  • Game Theory and Social Network Theory in the development of models for Physiology and biomedical research
  • Artificial / Computational Intelligence, Expert Systems, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition
  • Evolutionary Programming, Genetic Algorithms, Cellular Automata in biomedical research
  • Biological and Artificial Neural Networks – Structural / Functional simulation of the Central Nervous System (Computational Neuroscience – Brain Theory)
  • Medical Physics – Acquisition and analysis of biomedical data, SQUID biomagnetometer technology, Biomagnetism and Medical Applications
  • Application of linear and non-linear methods for signal/data analysis, identification, and modeling
  • Complexity Theory, theory and applications of non-linear systems, Chaos and Fractal Geometry in signal analysis and understanding the complexity of physical and biological systems
  • Telematics for home care, e-learning, Medical Physics, Medical Imaging Physics, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
  • Development of advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques and extraction of imaging biomarkers for early disease diagnosis, evaluation of treatments, and resolution of differential diagnostic challenges
  • Analysis of neuroimaging MRI data to evaluate the structural and functional integrity of patients with neurological and psychiatric diseases
  • Dosimetry of patients undergoing imaging examinations using ionizing radiation. Development of protocols and algorithms for the reduction of radiation exposure.

 

 

 

 

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