Introduction to Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The goal of this course is to provide students with the knowledge to understand and apply state-of-the-art biomedical optical imaging and sensing techniques. This course will teach the fundamentals of light interactions with biological tissues, the preclinical and clinical applications of biomedical optical image/sensing, and the instrumentation required to do so. Topics explored include diffuse optics, tissue spectroscopy, florescence imaging, optical coherence tomography, confocal and nonlinear microscopy techniques, endoscopy, photoacoustics, and laser surgery.