Imaging Sciences, PhD

About the Program

With recent advances in medical imaging technology and techniques, the imaging sciences field is rapidly growing. Because the effects of these new imaging systems pose challenges with formation, acquisition and analysis of images describing processes in living tissue, imaging sciences is a necessary requirement in many jobs. In the imaging sciences graduate program, students will have the opportunity to work alongside faculty in the School of Health Sciences to develop new molecular imaging systems and techniques to advance our understanding of biological systems, applying these methods to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.

Program Highlights:

• To advance imaging sciences research, the Purdue Life Science MRI Facility is dedicated to the advancement of basic and applied life science research with an emphasis on understanding human health and disease.
• The imaging sciences field encompasses physics, engineering, chemistry, biology and medicine.
• Meet and learn from your peers by joining the Medical Physics Club of Purdue or the Purdue Association for Magnetic Resonance.

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Program Requirements

90 Credits Required

(30 credits from a Master’s may be applied.)

Concentrations

Interdisciplinary concentrations:

• Computational Life Sciences Concentration (GR)  
• Purdue University Interdisciplinary Life Science (PULSe), MS or PHD 
  • Biotechnology
  • Integrative Neuroscience
  • Molecular Signaling and Cancer Biology

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GPA Requirements

Graduate courses taken while registered as a graduate student at Purdue University may be considered for fulfilling the plan of study requirements only if the student has received grades of C or better. For courses at the 300/400-level taken as a graduate student or courses that represent either undergraduate or graduate excess credit or transfer credit, grades of B or better are required for fulfilling plan of study requirements.

A total of 90 credit hours is required for the PhD degree. These residency hours may be any combination of course credit hours or research credit hours. Up to 30 hours may be credited for an MS degree upon recommendation of the PhD graduate student’s advisory committee and this may include all required coursework and the clinical internship if the equivalent has recently been taken. No more than 6 credit hours of coursework at the 300/400-level is allowed to form part of the student’s PhD degree plan of study.