Instrumentation and Laboratory Enhancement in Biomedical Optics

我们正在申请资金购买仪器，将用于改善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室课程，强调其在医学中的应用，以更好地培养本科生在解决实际的设计和工程问题，在生物医学光学。除了经典的光学教学实验外，实验室课程还将包括医疗光学和激光应用中的代表性设计问题，重点是医疗激光和光传输系统以及激光与组织的相互作用。实验室课程将作为一个实用的，但教学介绍光学，光纤，激光及其在医学科学中的应用。本课程主要针对大二或大三的生物医学工程专业学生。通过提供这种介绍性的实践经验，我们将能够改善目前提供给高级本科生的两个现有的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的成就，后来参与设计项目的生物医学光学，也作为一个模型，目前正在开发的生物医学光学本科课程在全国其他大学。该项目的结果，以便用于开发其他本科教学材料和练习，在生物医学光学，可能是我们机构以外的人。

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.