Concentration: Biomedical Imaging

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The Biomedical Imaging concentration helps us see inside the body through work on new imaging systems and refinements to technologies like MRI, CT and ultrasound. We learn to analyze imaging systems with quantitative assessments of resolution, contrast, and noise.

Real-World Applications

Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Magnetic Particle Imaging, signal improvement, image analysis, new imaging modalities.

News About: Biomedical Imaging

Aaron Streets named AIMBE Fellow

Professor Aaron Streets has been named to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Streets was selected for “developing innovative technology to elucidate genome regulation with single-cell and molecule resolution, and for impactful leadership to diversify bioengineering.

BlotSeq single cell sequencing – animated!

BioE postdoc Trinh Lam’s animated video explains how Herr Lab’s BlotSeq single-cell tool uses sequencing data to guide protein selection without the need to predefine targets, making the process more flexible.

Diverse paths to discovery at UC Berkeley

BioE graduate student Jazmin Isabel Velazquez examines the unique paths every graduate student takes on the road to their PhD in this story based on her experience in the Healy and Rubinsky Labs.

Herr Lab Postdoc Wins AIP Best Paper

Trinh Lam, a postdoc in Amy Herr’s lab, has won the Biomicrofluidics Best Paper Award from AIP Publishing at the 28th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences – Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS 2024).

Yartsev new HHMI Investigator

Congratulations Professor Michael Yartsev, named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator!

So to speak: how bats and humans communicate

Berkeley researchers led by Professor Michael Yartsev, working with scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, have identified the part of the brain in Egyptian fruit bats that controls vocalizations and found that it contains similar neural wiring and genetics to the part of the human brain that controls speech.

Putting on the heat

Professor Seung-Wuk Lee discusses pyroelectricity: the finding that viruses can generate electricity when exposed to heat, and how this may pave the way for next-generation biosensors and diagnostic tools.

Cool it down

How isochoric preservation can protect food, organs — and even the planet. Professor Boris Rubinsky discusses the state of the art in cryogenics and preservation.

Yartsev wins Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award 2024

The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) has selected Professor Michael Yartsev for the 2024 Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award, given in recognition of outstanding and innovative work from all areas of neuroscience. The award will be presented at the FENS Forum conference in Vienna.

Berkeley’s ecosystem of innovation, entrepreneurship combats climate change

Professors John Dueber and David Schaffer are featured in this article highlighting campus research and entrepreneurship in sustainability.