INTRODUCTION TO ENERGY-TISSUE INTERACTIONS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: PHYSICS 202 , 208 , 248 , or PHYSICS/MED PHYS 265 , or graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Derive and solve bioheat transfer problems relevant to therapeutic hyperthermia and hypothermia Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explain changes at the tissue and cellular levels during thermal therapies Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze technologies that apply electromagnetic and acoustic energy to tissue Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Discuss medical applications and regulatory guidelines/requirements involving energy-tissue interactions Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Demonstrate an advanced ability to synthesize recent literature, formulate technical problems, and describe plausible solutions Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Derive and solve bioheat transfer problems relevant to therapeutic hyperthermia and hypothermia Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explain changes at the tissue and cellular levels during thermal therapies Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze technologies that apply electromagnetic and acoustic energy to tissue Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Discuss medical applications and regulatory guidelines/requirements involving energy-tissue interactions Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Demonstrate an advanced ability to synthesize recent literature, formulate technical problems, and describe plausible solutions Audience: Graduate