New Visions: Advanced Optical Imaging for the Undergraduate

维基·J·马丁将于1995年获得圣母大学9552116财年50,000美元，在46556 ILI-仪器项目：生命科学标题：新视野：面向本科生的高级光学成像中，圣母大学生物科学系正在启动一项计划，将高级生物成像整合到其核心课程中。这一决定是由于迫切需要结合记录、量化和分析生物过程的创新方法而做出的。此外，应用光学、电子成像和基于计算的图像处理方面的新技术进步继续推动生物分子成像的前沿进入我们生活的所有要素，从医学诊断到科学教育和研究。显然，如果我们计划停留在这项技术的前沿，我们必须为本科生提供实验、探索和发现应用光学成像的力量的机会。为了将生物成像整合到本科实验室中，我们正在进行各种实验，将重要的新型生物传感器和分子探测器与最先进的电子探测器、高功率共聚焦光学系统和复杂的软件程序相结合，用于研究动态细胞、发育和生理过程。这些练习训练学生电子图像采集、处理和分析的基本知识，同时强调以计算机为基础的数字光学仪器的力量及其作为生物调查的定量工具的用途。

Vicki J. Martin DUE 9552116 University of Notre Dame FY1995 $ 50,000 Notre Dame, IN 46556 ILI - Instrumentation Project: Life Sciences Title: New Visions: Advanced Optical Imaging for the Undergraduate In an increasing effort to expand improvements in undergraduate training, the Department of Biological Science at Notre Dame is initiating a program to integrate advanced bioimaging into its core curriculum. This decision is stimulated by a pressing need to incorporate innovative methods for recording, quantifying, and analyzing biological processes. In addition, new technological advancements in applied optics, electronic imaging, and computational-based image processing continue to drive the frontier of biomolecular imaging into all elements of our lives from medical diagnostics to science education and research. Clearly, if we plan to stay at the frontier of this technology, we must provide undergraduates with the opportunity to experiment, explore, and discover the power of applied optical imaging. To integrate bioimaging into undergraduate laboratories, we are carrying out a variety of experiments that combine the use of important new biosensors and molecular probes with state-of-the-art electronic detectors, high-powered confocal optics, and sophisticated software programs for the study of dynamic cell, developmental, and physiological processes. These exercises are training students in the nuts and bolts of electronic image acquisition, processing, and analysis, while emphasizing the power of computer-based digital optical instrumentation and its use as a quantitative tool for biological investigation.