Course Catalog 2011-2012
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Opinto-opas 2011-2012

Bioimaging, 35 cr

Type of the study block

Major Studies

Contact

Hannu Eskola, Ilpo Vattulainen, Ulla Ruotsalainen

Learning outcomes

- Students are able to utilize knowledge on fundamental physics and physical interactions with biological material to bioimaging.
- Students are able to apply versatile bioimaging methods to the research of cellular or tissue level structures, mechanisms or functions.
- Students are able to select between and apply different image processing and analysis methods for different types of biological images.
- Students are able to identify and formulate problems and rise to these challenges in the field of biotechnology, systems biology, biomedicine by applying modern bioimaging, image processing and analysis methods.

Content

Compulsory courses

BME-1806 Master's Seminar on Biomedical Engineering is also compulsory when the MSc thesis is made in this module.

Course Credit points
BME-1506 Research Project in Biomedical Engineering 5 cr
BME-3206 Medical Imaging Methods 6 cr
MIT-5216 Optical Methods in Bioanalytics 4 cr
SGN-3016 Digital Image Processing I 5 cr
Total 20 cr

Supplemental courses

Please select courses from the list to complete the study block`s requirement (35)

Course Credit points
BME-2636 Medical Image Analysis 5 cr
BME-2716 Modelling of Physiological Systems 5 cr
BME-5106 Cellular Interactions 5 cr
FYS-2306 Electron Spectroscopy 5 cr
FYS-5106 Optics II 6 cr
SGN-2506 Introduction to Pattern Recognition 4 cr
SGN-3507 Introduction to Medical Image Processing 5 cr

Additional information

Medical imaging and microscopy methods have developed rapidly during the recent years. These methods provide new type of data about the properties and functioning of tissues, cells and molecules that can be utilized in biological, biomedical or tissue engineering research and diagnostic. Essential in this development is the utilization of effective image processing and image analysis methods and physics. The major in bioimaging provides a multi-disciplinary view to biomedical engineering and bioengineering by combining the physics related to the image formation, image-based computational modeling, as well as image analysis methods of tissues and cells.

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