Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Bioengineering

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LASERS IN MEDICINE AND BIOENGINEERING ***** This course will provide an overview of various types of interactions between lasers and biological tissues. Methods of optical properties measurements, mathematical modeling of light propagation, and selected therapeutic applications of lasers will be addressed. Optically based diagnostic procedures, including absorption and scattering-based techniques, will be introduced. Physics of optical tweezers and their applications in biomedical sciences will be discussed. Repeatable for Credit.