PBMED M219
Principles and Applications of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Physics and Biology in Medicine · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(Same as Bioengineering M219.) Basic principles of magnetic resonance (MR), physics, and image formation. Emphasis on hardware, Bloch equations, analytic expressions, image contrast mechanisms, spin and gradient echoes, Fourier transform imaging methods, structure of pulse sequences, and various scanning parameters. Introduction to advanced techniques in rapid imaging, quantitative imaging, and spectroscopy.
Letter grading.
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 M219
- PBMED M229AAdvanced Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging A
- PBMED M229BAdvanced Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging B
- PBMED M236Contrast Mechanisms and Quantification in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.





