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The diversity of faculty within the biomedical engineering program at UCD provides a wide variety of facilities for student research. The program is administered by faculty from a variety of departments in several schools and colleges - including engineering, medicine, veterinary medicine, agricultural and environmental sciences, and letters and sciences - who are organized into a graduate group.
Particularly valuable resources include:
- The largest academic cleanroom in the US, used for the fabrication of microsystems
- A 7T small bore MR imaging and spectroscopy system, operated on campus as a core facility
- 1.5 T whole body dedicated MR imaging system available in radiology
- Laser and optical instrumentation
- Automatic video image analysis systems
- A virtual reality immersion system for 3D visualization
- Computing Resources
- Ultrasonics and acoustics research systems
- Surgery and animal care for a wide variety of small and large animals
- Materials testing and rheological equipment
- A variety of facilities for physiological studies of animal and humans, including special laboratories for human performance observation and analysis
- Optical microscopy, diffraction, scanning
- A MicroPET imaging facility
There are excellent mechanical and electrical shop facilities, in addition to a student-faculty shop (in the College of Engineering) for those who choose to do their own shop work. A campus Organized Research Unit, the Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV), has considerable interaction with the graduate group and provides facilities for it.
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