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BME 333: Modern Optical Microscopy and Imaging

Prerequisites

BME 220; PHYSICS 135-3; GEN_ENG 205-4

Description

This course provides students with (1) Fundamental background of tissue optics; (2) Understanding of physics, strengths, and limitations of various existing bio-optical imaging technologies; (3) Knowledge of emerging bio-optical imaging technologies for anatomic and functional studies.

Who Takes It?

Senior undergraduate students and graduate students.

Mini-Syllabus

Introduction to optics, optical properties of tissue, and photon-tissue interactions
Monte Carlo simulation
Sensing of optical properties and spectroscopy
Ballistic imaging
Wide-field and dark-field microscopy
Polarization, phase contrast, and differential interference contract microscopy (DIC) microscopy
Fluorescence microscopy
Confocal microscopy
Two-photon microscopy
Optical coherence tomography
Super-resolution imaging

Required Class Materials

Fundamentals of Light Microscopy and Electronic Imaging, Douglas B. Murphy, Wiley-Liss, ISBN: 0-471-25391-X

Suggested Class Materials

Biomedical Optics: Principles and Imaging, Lihong V. Wang and Hsin-i Wu, Wiley Interscience, 1st Edition, ISBN: 0471743046