Students are exposed to a multidisciplinary environment involving applied physics, biophysics, engineering and medicine, most typically diagnostic imaging and its applications to the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, abdominal and neurologic systems. Graduate Courses relevant to the Imaging Concentration involve multimodality biomedical imaging, image analysis and processing, MR imaging techniques, bioinstrumentation design, digital signal processing and biostatistics. All PhD students in the Imaging Concentration will enroll in the core courses. Supplemental courses will be selected on the basis of the trainee's research focus. Each graduate student will have only one advisor, however, in practice, trainees will be involved with at least two advisors, one with a clinical direction and one with a basic science and engineering direction.
Advisors routinely work in teams that combine clinicians and basic scientists.