Graduate Course Descriptions

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5210. Biomedical Optics: Tissue Optics, Instruments and Imaging

3.00 credits

Prerequisites: PHYS 1502Q and ECE 3101.

Grading Basis: Graded

Principles and imaging of biomedical optics. Optical absorption, scattering and their biological origins, radiative transfer equation and diffusion theory, diffuse optical tomography, Monte Carlo modeling and photon transport in biological tissue, ballistic light imaging, time domain, frequency domain and continuous light measurement systems, optical coherence tomography, and photoacoustic tomography.

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