Bio Optics and Acoustics Laboratory

We are very interested in developing new educational methods such as MOOCs and Flipped Learning Methods. Conventional capstone design courses tend to adopt a linear sequencing of design from theory study and practical training to capstone design and/or implementation. In such a course structure, students may have limited design experiences and formalized design flow, which could restrict students’ potential to accomplish flexible, creative, and convergent design outcomes. The main aim of the CITD course, therefore is to move away from such traditional linear approach of IT design and to provide convergent and creative IT-based design capability to students. Description: This course will cover two main topics including the principles of optical photon transport in biological tissues and various optical imaging techniques. The former topic includes an introduction to biomedical optics, Monte Carlo modeling of photon transport, radiative transfer equation and diffusion theory, and optical spectroscopy. The later part covers ballistic imaging, optical coherence tomography, diffuse optical tomography, photoacoustic tomography, and acousto-optical tomography. This course will cover a comprehensive introduction of the physics, systems, and computational methods of standard medical imaging modalities including Planar X-ray imaging, X-ray computed tomography (CT), Nuclear medicine, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Ultrasound imaging (US), and optical imaging. Further, image reconstruction algorithms will be discussed. This course introduces biomedical instrumentation covering clinical and research measurements. The covered topics include biomedical electronics, measurement techniques, understanding of transducers used in measurements and system for physical, optical, electrical