PBMED 200APhysics and Chemistry of Nuclear Medicine
Physics and Biology in Medicine · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Nuclear structure, statistics of radioactive decay, nuclear radiations and their interaction with matter, nuclear decay processes, nuclear reactions, and compartment models. Physical and chemical properties of radioactive preparations used in nuclear medicine. Basic principles of nuclear medicine imaging, SPECT, and PET.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
PBMED 200A
- PBMED 200BNuclear Medicine Instrumentation
- PBMED 202AApplications of Medical Physics to Clinical Problems: Nuclear Medicine
- PBMED 207Monte Carlo Methods with Applications for Radiological Sciences
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.