Biomedical Optics

The course will present the teoretical background of biomedical optics. The course will include general phenomena such as scattering, absorption, fluorescence and polarization, and will show how these properties can be utilized in biomedical diagnostics and imaging. Modelling of photon transport in turbide media using diffusion theory and Monte Carlo methods will be discussed. The course will include a presentation of experimental techniques within optical diagnostics and imaging, such as hypersepctral imaging. This part of the course will be associated with relevant research within the field.

Knowledge:
The students are expected to acquire a basic understanding of the fundamental physical principles within biomedical optics.

The student is expected to be able to discuss relevant experimental procedures, methods for data analysis, and the main mathematical methods that are used to simulate photon transport in such media.

The student should be able to describe and explain selected experimental techniques within the field.

Skills:
The student should be able to analyze experimental data and solve problems related to optical light transport in tissue using the methods presented in the course. The student should be able to analyze the positive and negative sides and sources of error in each method.

General skills:
The use of Matlab or other mathematical software packages for simulations and data analysis.

Lectures and exercises (problems). Repetition exam may be changed from written to oral. The course may be given in English.