Introduction

The graduate Biomedical Imaging Program is an interconnecting web of courses, seminars and joint research projects that incorporate state-of-the-art systems in digital Biomedical imaging. These new systems are in many ways revolutionizing the way that medicine is practiced and at the same time depend strongly for their success on the transfer of technology from the engineering sciences. Current students in the program are drawn from Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics, Engineering Physics, Physics, Computer Science and the MST (MD-PhD) Program. This program also provides the resources of trained students, personnel and electronic networks to reach out to a wider interdisciplinary community of researchers and clinicians in the University whose work will benefits from this new infrastructure. The BIP gives early experience to students in the "real-world" clinical environment and thereby fosters the integration of basic scientists and physicians to work backwards from the clinical problem to the technological solution.