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2024-2025 University Catalog 
    
2024-2025 University Catalog

BME 53000 - Imaging Diagnostic Technologies For Medical And Biological Applications


Credit Hours: 3.00.  This gateway course teaches the physics, engineering techniques associated with modern imaging and diagnostic tools for biological and medical applications. The course covers fundamental principles of radiology, optics, contrast generation (including genetically encoded probes and physiological indicators), image formation, detection, and analysis. The specific biomedical imaging modalities covered include: x-ray, computed tomography, nuclear medicine imaging, ultrasound, optical microscopy and tomography, and MRI. The specific biological microscopy modalities covered include: phase contrast, DIC, confocal microscopy, two-photon microscopy and super-resolution microscopy. The course also teaches the principle concepts of adaptive optics, light sheet microscopy, 4Pi microscopy, and modern super-resolution microscopy techniques (PALM/STORM, STED and ISM). To bridge the technology and physics with the latest diagnostic advances and biomedical discoveries, research progresses in specific biomedical applications are presented by leading experts in their respective biomedical field such as OCT, ultrasound, MRI, fluorescence microscopy, electron microscopy, concurrent MRI and optical functional imaging, and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. This course also includes a crash sub-course on MATLAB programming including both introductory content and contents of MATLAB-C API and MATLAB-C-CUDA (GPU computing).Credits: 3.00