Instrumentation and Laboratory Enhancement in Biomedical Optics

生物医学光学仪器和实验室增强

• 批准号: 9851052
• 负责人: Fabrice Manns
• 金额: $ 1.98万
• 依托单位: University of Miami
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-07-01 至 2001-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9851052&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Instrumentation; Laboratory; Enhancement; Biomedical; Optics

We are requesting funds to purchase instruments that will be used to improve our undergraduate biomedical optics laboratory and curriculum. Our overall objective is to develop a two-semester undergraduate laboratory course in optics and lasers emphasizing their applications in medicine to better train undergraduate students at solving practical design and engineering problems in biomedical optics. In addition to classical optical teaching experiments, the laboratory courses will include representative design problems in medical optic and laser applications, with an emphasis on medical laser and light delivery systems and laser-tissue interactions. The laboratory courses will serve as a practical yet instructional introduction to optics, fiber optics, lasers and their application in the medical sciences. The courses are intended for sophomore or junior undergraduate biomedical engineering students. By providing this introductory practical experience, we will be able to improve the content of two existing classes on biomedical optics currently offered to advanced undergraduate students. We expect that this project will improve the achievements of our undergraduate students later involved in design projects in biomedical optics and also serve as a model for undergraduate programs in biomedical optics currently being developed at other universities nationwide. The results of the project so be used to develop additional undergraduate teaching materials and exercises in biomedical optics that may be others outside of our institution.

我们正在申请资金购买仪器，这些仪器将用于改进我们的本科生生物医学光学实验室和课程。我们的总体目标是开发一个为期两个学期的光学和激光本科实验课程，强调它们在医学中的应用，以更好地训练本科生解决生物医学光学的实际设计和工程问题。除了经典的光学教学实验外，实验室课程还将包括医用光学和激光应用中的代表性设计问题，重点是医用激光和光传输系统以及激光与组织的相互作用。实验室课程将作为光学、光纤、激光及其在医学科学中的应用的实用且指导性的介绍。这些课程面向生物医学工程本科二年级或三年级学生。通过提供这种介绍性实践经验，我们将能够改进目前为高年级本科生提供的两门生物医学光学课程的内容。我们期望该项目能够提高我校本科生以后参与生物医学光学设计项目的成绩，并为目前全国其他大学正在开展的生物医学光学本科项目提供一个样板。该项目的结果可用于开发更多的本科教学材料和生物医学光学练习，这些材料和练习可能是我们机构之外的其他材料。