Head of the Department – Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor Serhii Radchenko

Presentation of the Department of Medical Radiophysics

Development programme of the Department of Medical Radiophysics

Lecturers:

  •  Prof. A. I. Ivanisik
  •  Assoc. prof. O. O. Sudakov
  •  assoc. prof. Y. P. Veremii
  •  assist. L. M. Hryshchenko
  • -assist. T. V. Afanasieva

Currently, the Department of Medical Radiophysics has the following staff: Head of the Department. S.P. Radchenko, professor A.I. Ivanisik, assistant professor O.O. Sudakov, assistant professor Y.P. Veremii, assist. L. M. Grishchenko, assist. T. V. Afanasieva, leading engineer N. V. Synytska, leading specialist I. S. Yerzhov, specialist. 1 cat. O. E. Efremova, laboratory assistant R. G. Skibenko. The secretary of the department is Y.A. Osypenko. Specialists of the Bogomolets Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Institute of Magnetism of the National Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Institute of Chemistry of High Molecular Weight Compounds of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine are involved in the educational process.

The department provides training for bachelors in applied physics and masters in radiophysics and electronics with a specialisation in medical radiophysics. The Department of Medical Radiophysics has a licence to train masters in medical physics. As part of this work, the curriculum of the department was significantly revised to take into account the specifics of this speciality, and programmes for new special courses were prepared. According to the UNESCO nomenclature, “Medical Physics (methods of diagnosis, physiotherapy and pathogenesis)” is indicated by code 2406.06 as one of the sections of biophysics (2406).

In Ukraine, the training of specialists in medical physics (complete higher education) at the master’s degree level (8.04020406) is based on the bachelor’s degree in applied physics. Such a choice of the basic field of study is fully conditioned by the structure of this speciality and the needs for special knowledge that a future specialist receives both at the bachelor’s level and at subsequent levels of education. The availability of the necessary facilities and the experience of the department make it possible to provide training in this speciality.

Since 2003, the department has been paying great attention to the development of modern methods of computer modelling using parallel and distributed computing (O. O. Sudakov) and the application of these methods to solving complex problems of molecular biology, studying the mechanisms of the nervous system, studying the interaction of radiation with biological objects, etc. The unique experience in the field of parallel and distributed computing was used to build computing clusters and GRID nodes in many scientific and educational institutions of Ukraine, as well as to apply these systems in other fields of science. Within this area, software tools were created to model the nonlinear dynamics of large biological networks (neurosystems, genetic and protein functional chains, etc.). With the help of these tools, the role of force and topology of connections for neuronal synchronisation in Parkinson’s disease was revealed within the Rubin-Therman model; symmetric states with periodic coherence-incoherence (chimera state) were found in the two-dimensional Kuramoto model.

Since 2011, in the course of research under the programme “Physical and Information Processes in Condensed Matter and Biological Systems with a Large Number of Connections”, optimised methods for processing EEG signals have been developed to extract quantitative diagnostic information from the received signal of total brain electrical activity recorded using electrodes for multichannel recording of induced potentials. The developed algorithms for processing EEG signals and the obtained experimental estimates of the decay of the total electrical activity of the brain of patients are the basis for building a universal reference function, comparison with which will allow to determine the state of human health.

The Department maintains scientific relations with leading scientific institutions of Ukraine and the world, in particular with Kharkiv University, Dnipro University, Ghent (Belgium), Munster, Aachen, Frankfurt, Munich (Germany), Lyon (France), Normal, Maryland, Yale (USA), Medical University of Vienna (Austria), University of Presov (Slovakia), University of Parma (Italy).

New scientific directions of the Department’s research led to new contacts with leading research centres in Europe: in 2005, Associate Professor S. P. Radchenko conducted joint research on modelling the interaction of ultrasound waves with soft biological tissues with Professor H. Kohlmann at the Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Physics of the Medical University of Vienna (Austria). O. O. Sudakov visited the European Centre for Nuclear Research “CERN” (Switzerland) to participate in the development of a GRID system for processing data from the ALICE experiment. Over the past few years, O. Sudakov has been involved in projects to study large dynamic systems, including brain structures, using parallel computing systems together with the Julich Research Centre, Germany (2008-2009); WIAS Institute, Berlin, Germany; and the University of Potsdam, Germany (since 2011). For the successful implementation of the set scientific tasks and training programmes, cooperation with the Samsung Electronics Research Centre and Materialise Ukraine has been launched.