University College London (UCL) is introducing a postgraduate
course to train biomedical technology professionals.
The
medical image
computing MSc will provide full- or part-time students with the
skills and experience to enter what is a rapidly developing area of
healthcare IT, said course director David Atkinson.
Computer assisted medical imaging, in the form or ultrasound,
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer tomography (CT) and
positron emission tomography (PET), is increasingly used in
pharmaceutical research.
Computer aided diagnosis can also help specialist practitioners
to fine tune therapies and perform more precise keyhole surgical
procedures.
"The images we store tend to be quite big," said Atkinson. "Some
of our
parallel computing systems have to push at the limits to
perform complex graphical computations."
Students will study anatomy and physics in addition to medical
computing and statistics, and they do not need a degree in computer
science or physics to apply.
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