Deep Tissue Optics (GE, IM)

Description from DukeHub

This course covers the fundamentals of biomedical optics and their applications to medical imaging and therapy. The course is divided into two parts: (1) fundamentals of photon transport in biological tissue and (2) optical imaging. Part 1 covers biomedical optics, single-scatterer theories, Monte Carlo modeling of photon transport, convolution for broadbeam responses, radiative transfer equation and diffusion theory, hybrid Monte Carlo method, and sensing of optical properties. Part 2 covers ballistic imaging, optical coherence tomography, diffuse optical tomography, photoacoustic tomography, and wavefront-engineering/adaptive optics. Prerequisites: BME 303L or graduate standing (GE, IM)

Skills

• data and statisticsAI review: "Monte Carlo modeling of photon transport"

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• ✓Yes: Live work with people · "therapy"
• No: Judgment someone is accountable for
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

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