Instrumentation and Laboratory Enhancement in Biomedical Optics

我们正在申请资金购买仪器，这些仪器将用于改善我们的本科生物医学光学实验室和课程。我们的总体目标是开发一门为期两个学期的光学和激光本科实验课程，重点强调它们在医学上的应用，以更好地培养本科生解决生物医学光学中的实际设计和工程问题。除了经典的光学教学实验，实验室课程还将包括医疗光学和激光应用中具有代表性的设计问题，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。这些实验室课程将作为光学、光纤光学、激光及其在医学科学中的应用的实用而有教学意义的介绍。这些课程是为二年级或三年级的生物医学工程专业学生开设的。通过提供这种介绍性的实践经验，我们将能够改进目前提供给高级本科生的两门生物医学光学课程的内容。我们希望这个项目将提高我们的本科生后来参与生物医学光学设计项目的成绩，并作为目前全国其他大学正在开发的生物医学光学本科生项目的典范。因此，该项目的成果可用于开发生物医学光学方面的额外本科教材和练习，这可能是我们机构以外的其他课程。

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.