Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: LASERS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

Department: Bioengineering

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): Differential Equations, Introductory Physics, and Engineering Computation. Repeatable for Credit.