PBMED 216Fundamentals of Dosimetry
Physics and Biology in Medicine · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Review of fundamental interactions of radiation and matter and introduction to fundamentals of radiation dosimetry. Overview of dosimetry instrumentation as well as radiation sources.
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 216
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6 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 12 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.