PBMED 232Image Guided Radiation Therapy
Physics and Biology in Medicine · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Designed to provide students theoretical and practical understanding of processes and equipment used for image guided radiation therapy. Emphasis on in-room imaging systems, including their operating principles, manufacturing, workflows, and quality assurance. Detailed discussions of hardware, image acquisition, and image processing provide understanding of theoretical and practical benefits and challenges of each technology. Discussion of clinical workflow and quality assurance to provide more practical information to understand clinical value and implementation challenges for each technology.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 203, 216.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.