FYS4590 – Targeted Alpha Therapy (TAT)
Course description
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
This course is an Introduction to Targeted Alpha Therapy (TAT), focusing on Physics. Key topics include the production of radioactive nuclides for TAT and selection criteria for relevant nuclides. Additionally, the success criteria for TAT medications will be discussed.
Learning outcome
After completing the course, you are able to:
- explain which nuclides are relevant to TAT.
- discuss production methods for TAT nuclides.
- describe the entire production process from nuclide to finished drug.
- able to assess possible contaminants in connection with production.
Admission to the course
Students admitted at UiO must?apply for courses?in Studentweb. Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.
Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may?apply to take this course as a single course student.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about?admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.
Recommended previous knowledge
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with FYS9590 – Targeted Alpha Therapy (TAT).
Teaching
- 4 hours of lectures per week
- 2 hours of group per week, including project work. It is mandatory to attend the project work.
One mandatory assignment must be approved to take the final exam. The assignment is completed in a group and will be one of the topics discussed during the final individual oral exam.
Examination
- Final oral exam which counts 100 % towards the final?grade.
This course has mandatory exercises that must be approved before you can sit the final?exam.
It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course if you sit the exam for the following course: FYS9505 – Methods and Instrumentation for Nuclear and Particle Physics
Examination support material
No examination support material is allowed.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F?is a fail. Read more about?the grading system
Resit an examination
Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a?postponed exam?at the beginning of the next semester.
New examinations?are offered at the beginning of the next semester for students who do not successfully complete the exam during the previous semester.
We do not offer a re-scheduled exam for students who withdraw during the exam.
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.