Department: Biomedical Physics

Code Name Description
BMP202 The Basic Science of Radiation and Cancer Biology For residents or fellows in the training program in the Division of Radiation Therapy, and for interested medical students. Basic processes of radiation biology that underly the treatment of malignant diseases by radiation. Carcinogenesis and mutage...
BMP206 Mixed-Reality in Medicine Mixed reality uses transparent displays to place virtual objects in the user's field of vision such that they can be aligned to and interact with actual objects. This has tremendous potential for medical applications. The course aims to teach the bas...
BMP210 Seminar Series for Biomedical Physics This seminar series is designed for students interested in biomedical physics, radiation therapy, image-guided therapy, diagnostic, interventional, and molecular imaging, and other forms of disease detection and characterization including molecular d...
BMP211 Biomedical Signals I This course builds the foundational skills for analyzing biomedical signals and systems. Students will learn about biomedical signal processing (with emphasis on two-dimensional signals), linear systems and their properties, the Fourier transform and...
BMP212 Biomedical Signals II This course examines the stochastic nature of biomedical signals and systems and introduces concepts from statistical signal processing to characterize and account for noise in signals and images. Students will learn about random variables, random pr...
BMP220 Introduction to Imaging and Image-based Human Anatomy Focus on learning the fundamentals of each imaging modality including X-ray Imaging, Ultrasound, CT, and MRI, to learn normal human anatomy and how it appears on medical images, to learn the relative strengths of the modalities, and to answer, "What...
BMP221 Physics and Engineering of Radionuclide-based Medical Imaging Physics, instrumentation, and algorithms for radionuclide-based medical imaging, with a focus on positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). Topics include basic physics of photon emission from the body...
BMP222 Physics and Engineering Principles of Multi-modality Molecular Imaging of Living Subjects Physics and Engineering Principles of Multi-modality Molecular Imaging of Living Subjects (RAD 222A). Focuses on instruments, algorithms and other technologies for non-invasive imaging of molecular processes in living subjects. Introduces research an...
BMP224 Probes and Applications for Multi-modality Molecular Imaging of Living Subjects We will focus on design, development, and application of imaging agents that target specific cellular and molecular aspects of disease. Covers the strengths and limitations of different imaging agents and how to optimize their design for image-guided...
BMP225 Transcranial Ultrasound Neuromodulation: Physics, Neurophysiology, and Applications This course covers the basic concepts of ultrasound neuromodulation, including basic neurophysiology, ultrasound physics and applications, and comparison to other neuromodulation modalities. The physics component will include acoustic properties of b...
BMP226 MRI Spin Physics, Relaxation Theory, and Contrast Mechanisms This course covers fundamental principles of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS) focusing on the analytic tools needed to understand interactions among nuclear spins, relaxation processes, and image contrast. Starting from a quant...
BMP227 Functional MRI Methods Basics of functional magnetic resonance neuroimaging, including data acquisition, analysis, and experimental design. Journal club sections. Cognitive neuroscience and clinical applications. Prerequisites: basic physics, mathematics; neuroscience reco...
BMP228 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Programming Topics Primarily for students working on research projects involving MRI pulse sequence programming. Introductory and student-initiated topics in seminars and hands-on labs. Image contrast mechanisms achieved by pulse sequences that control radiofrequency a...
BMP229 MRI Sequences and Signals Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) uses sequences of radiofrequency excitation and magnetic field gradients to generate a signal and form images. Numerous common and advanced sequences will be studied, including analysis techniques to predict signal an...
BMP230 Ultrasound Beamforming and Array Processing The course covers the fundamentals of beamforming and array processing as applied to medical ultrasound imaging. Topics of the course include the physics of wave propagation, sampling requirements for aperture data, beamforming in the time and freque...
BMP235 Advanced Ultrasound Imaging The focus of this course is on advanced ultrasound imaging techniques for medical imaging applications. Topics include beamforming, adaptive beamforming, Fourier beamforming, synthetic aperture techniques, speckle, speckle reduction, k-space, harmoni...
BMP236B Analytical Methods in Biotechnology II This course is intended for graduate students, who are interested in biomedical research but have little background in fundamental laboratory techniques. Required prerequisite is EE235A/BIOS212/RAD236. This course seeks to equip such students with ba...
BMP251 Medical Physics and Dosimetry This course covers concepts of radiological physics and dosimetry that are fundamental for understanding and exploring the most common medical application of physics in imaging and therapy. The course comprises two major parts. Part I focuses on the...
BMP252 Physics of Radiation Therapy This course provides the students the basis for understanding the principals of physics application in a key cancer therapy regimen radiotherapy, including external beam radiotherapy, brachytherapy, treatment planning, radiotherapy devices and emerge...
BMP253 Radiation Biology and Protection Gives a comprehensive overview of the principles by which ionizing radiation interacts with biological organisms, presented in the context of human health and disease. Students will learn about the basics of radiation physics and chemistry, DNA damag...
BMP260 Computational Methods for Biomedical Image Analysis and Interpretation The latest biological and medical imaging modalities and their applications in research and medicine. Focus is on computational analytic and interpretive approaches to optimize extraction and use of biological and clinical imaging data for diagnostic...
BMP269B Medical Imaging Systems II Imaging internal structures within the body using magnetic resonance studied from a systems viewpoint. Analysis of magnetic resonance imaging systems including physics, Fourier properties of image formation, effects of system imperfections, image con...
BMP399 Graduate Research Students undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
BMP802 TGR Dissertation TGR Dissertation