PBMED 205Physics of Diagnostic Radiology
Physics and Biology in Medicine · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Production of X rays, basic interactions between X rays and matter, X-ray system components, physics principles of medical radiography, radiographic image quality, fluoroscopy, image intensifiers, special procedures, X-ray protection. Laboratory experiments illustrate basic theory.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
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 205
- PBMED 202BApplications of Medical Physics to Clinical Problems: Diagnostic Radiology
- PBMED 206Advanced Instrumentation
- PBMED 207Monte Carlo Methods with Applications for Radiological Sciences
- PBMED 208AMedical Physics Laboratory: Medical Imaging
- PBMED 215Breast Imaging Physics and Instrumentation
5 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 5 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.