Course Descriptions

Topics covered will include: NMR physics, pulse sequences, relaxation, diffusion tensors, functional imaging, spectroscopy, flow and perfusion, elastography, polarized gas imaging, image formation and hardware design.

Weekly hours: 6 Lecture hours
Permission of instructor required.

Will introduce some synchrotron specific imaging modalities such as K-edge subtraction, diffraction enhanced imaging, and phase contrast imaging with connections made to conventional imaging. The first part of the course will cover x-ray interactions, detection, dose estimation and source properties (conventional and synchrotron).

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Permission of instructor required.

Two 3 credit-unit courses can be taken independently. Topics will be selected according to the student's specific areas of interest. They include signal analysis for the acquisition and processing of physiological data, digital and optical picture processing for medical applications, theory of bioelectrodes, biological control theory and computer simulations of biological processes (some of these topics may be presented by faculty members specializing in that particular field).

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Offered occasionally in special situations. Students interested in these courses should contact the department for more information.

Seminars are held periodically throughout the Regular Session or as a one-day symposium. Graduate students are required to make a presentation related to their thesis work or on a course project. In addition, graduate students may be required, from time to time, to attend seminars relevant to biomedical engineering given by faculty or visiting scientists in other departments. Students must enroll throughout their program.

Students taking the project Master's degree must register in this course.

Students writing a Master's thesis must register for this course.

Students writing a Ph.D. thesis must register for this course.