Biophysics and Medical Physics - Master of Science (MSc) in Physics 2-years - Trondheim
Biophysics and Medical Physics
Biophysics and Medical Physics
The activities in biophysics are focused on fundamental processes at molecular and organism levels.
Necessary prerequisites for the master's thesis depend upon the detailed content of the thesis.
Relevant thesis projects can be roughly divided into the following fields: Biophysical Systems Analysis, Biopolymer Physics, Photobiophysics, Medical Technology, and Transportation Processes. Projects within these fields could cover anything from measuring-technical projects to simulation and model studies.
Biophysical Systems Analysis includes studies of control systems at organism level, such as balance systems (conditions under weightlessness) and oscillative biological processes (particularly related to diurnal rhythm). The biological influence of electromagnetic fields is also studied. Projects within optical biophysics are assigned in conjunction with the Master's Degree Programme in Neuroscience. Optical Biophysics spans from psychophysical and electrophysiological measuring methods of visually impaired and normally sighted persons to theoretical model calculations
Biopolymer Physics covers experimental determination of different physical properties of biological macromolecules as well as theoretical calculation of these based on the knowledge about molecular structures.
Photobiophysics includes light induced reactions in biological or physical/chemical systems. Projects can be centred around spectroscopic studies of biophysical important molecules' incidence, properties and reactions, including unimolecular reactions (fluorescence, phosphorescence, etc) and biomolecular reactions (energy transportation, etc).
Medical Technology includes medical diagnostics and therapy, with emphasis on molecular optical imaging by means of confocal laser scanning microscopy. Transportation processes for specific therapeutic molecules are studied in living tissues and tissue models with optical techniques and magnetic resonance imaging.
The Department of Physics
The Department of Physics
An overview of courses given by The Department of Physics is available at the Departments web pages.