RAD 5301B Medical Physics Seminar
Topics in medical imaging, techniques and applications.

RAD 5313 Clinical Diagnostic Physics
Instrumentation and application of physics to clinical diagnostic imaging procedures including: radiographic and fluoroscopic x-ray, CT, MRI, nuclear medicine, and ultrasound.

RAD 5315 Laboratory in Clinical Diagnostic Physics
Laboratory in the application of principles, techniques, and equipment used in radiographic and fluoroscopic x-ray, CT, MRI, nuclear medicine, and ultrasound.

RAD 5343 Health Physics
Theory and instrumentation used in health physics and radiological physics. Radiation shielding design, methods of external and internal design, and radiation regulatory issues.

RAD 5391B Medical Physics Practicum (Diagnostic)
Experience and training in a diagnostic physics clinical setting; instrumentation methodology, calibration, and quality assurance. This course also includes diagnostic radiology patient interaction, clinical conference attendance, and review of imaging techniques in Radiology.

RADO 5248 Radiation Biophysics
Response of mammalian cells and systems to ionizing radiation, the acute radiation syndromes, carcinogenesis, genetic effects, and radiobiological basis of radiotherapy.

RADO 5301A Medical Physics Seminar
Radiotherapy treatment techniques and current methodologies in clinical therapy physics.

RADO 5304 Radiation Interactions and Dosimetry
Theory and instrumentation of ionization measurements of high-energy photon and electron beams. Methods of radiation absorbed dose calculations for photons, neutrons, and charged particles in matter.

RADO 5311 Clinical Therapy Physics I
Instrumentation and application of physcis to clinical radiotherapy procedures, equations for absorbed dose calculations, phantoms, methodologies in computerized treatment planning, and introduction to the special techniques of brachytherapy and stereoradiosurgery.

RADO 5312 Clinical Therapy Physics II
Photon and electron beam algorithms for dosimetry calculations. Methodologies in three-dimensional treatment planning with specific applications to radiotherapy.

RADO 5314 Laboratory in Clinical Therapy Physics
Laboratory applications of physics to clinical radiotherapy procedures, experience with equipment in a modern clinical radiotherapy environment, and methodology and techniques for the verifications of simulated clinical procedures.

RADO 5391A Medical Physics Practicum (Therapy)
Experience and training in a radiotherapy physics clinical setting; treatment planning, instrumentation calibration, and quality assurance. This course also includes radiotherapy patient interaction, clinical conference attendance, and review of treatment techniques in Radiation Oncology

PHYS 224  Physical Analysis of Biological Systems

Applications of physics to human biology, including biomechanics, exponential growth and decay, statistical mechanics and mass transport, bioelectricity and biomagnetism.

PHYS 228  Physics of Medical Imaging

Applications of physics to medicine, including signal analysis, image processing, atoms and light, X-rays, nuclear medicine, and magnetic resonance imaging.

BME 251–252  Systems Physiology

An introduction to quantitative physiology from the engineering point of view. Descriptive physiology of several organ systems (in particular: heart, lung, kidney, nerve, blood). Mathematical modeling and computer simulation of organ systems and physiologic control mechanisms.

BME 258  Foundations of Medical Imaging

Physics and engineering of image formation by different modalities used for medical applications.  Concepts common to different imaging modalities and limits of physical phenomena.  Mathematical concepts of image formation and analysis; techniques for recording images using ionizing radiation (including CT), ultrasound, magnetic resonance, and nuclear (including SPECT and PET). Methods of evaluating image quality.

BME 318  Principles and Applications of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Physics and engineering of magnetic resonance imaging with an introduction to biomedical applications of MRI. Topics include signal generation, spatial localization, pulse sequence design, Fourier transform reconstructions, image processing, instrumentation, artifacts, MR angiography, cardiac MR, and echo planar imaging.