Area of Study:
Medical Imaging & Image-Guided Therapy
The UW Department of Bioengineering has made significant contributions to medical imaging advances, particularly in diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound. Medical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy provides our student with a solid foundation for a systems-oriented educational program. Once students have been trained through this rigorous course sequence, they will be able to contribute significantly to many exciting research projects involving revolutionary new technologies and their clinical applications. These range from image-guided surgery and high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) to image computing for real-time support of various algorithms and applications, to designing hardware and software for next-generation low-cost ultrasound machines. This thrust interacts with D2H2, Molecular Bioengineering, and Engineered Biomaterials.
Medical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy takes students through two senior courses in medical imaging (BIOEN 420) and systems engineering and electronic medicine (BIOEN 470). After learning about the algorithms and systems that support image processing in BIOEN 568, the students can branch into modalities such as ultrasound, MRI or optics and microscopy. They can take the ultrasound and MRI courses followed by an in-depth course on image-guided therapy, or concentrate on high-performance processors and their programming.
The chart below summarizes courses that guide students through Medical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy.
