Biomedical Photonics I
4.0
creditsAverage Course Rating
This course will cover the basic optics principles including geometric, beam and wave description of light. The course will also cover the basic generation and detection techniques of light and the principles of optical imaging and spectroscopy. After the basis is established, we will focus on some commonly employed optical techniques and tools for biomedical research including various optical microscopy technologies, fiber optics, Raman spectroscopy, Fluorescence (lifetime), FRAT, FRET and FCS. The recent development in tissue optics, biomedical optical imaging/spectroscopy techniques (such as OCT, multiphoton fluorescence and harmonics microscopy, Structured Illumination, light scattering, diffuse light imaging and spectroscopy, optical molecular imaging, photo-acoustic imaging) will also be discussed. Representative biomedical applications of translational biomedical photonics technologies will be integrated into the corresponding chapters.
Fall 2014
Professor: Xingde Li
Students praised this course for having hands-on labs that focused on practical learning. Perceived issues with the course varied; a couple students disliked that they received little feedback on exams. Suggestions for improvement included a belief that the lectures could be better designed so that they would be more conceptual and informative as well as more welcoming to non-biomedical engineers. Prospective students should know that students found the course had a time consuming, heavy workload and required them to be self-driven. 43