Curriculum in biomedical optics and laser-tissue interactions

Steven L. Jacques

doi:10.1117/12.2207352

6 October 2003 Curriculum in biomedical optics and laser-tissue interactions

Steven L. Jacques

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Proceedings Volume 9663, Eighth International Topical Meeting on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics; 96630N (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2207352
Event: Eighth International Topical Meeting on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics, 2003, Tucson, Arizona, United States

Abstract

A graduate student level curriculum has been developed for teaching the basic principles of how lasers and light interact with biological tissues and materials. The field of Photomedicine can be divided into two topic areas: (1) where tissue affects photons, used for diagnostic sensing, imaging, and spectroscopy of tissues and biomaterials, and (2) where photons affect tissue, used for surgical and therapeutic cutting, dissecting, machining, processing, coagulating, welding, and oxidizing tissues and biomaterials. The courses teach basic principles of tissue optical properties and light transport in tissues, and interaction of lasers and conventional light sources with tissues via photochemical, photothermal and photomechanical mechanisms.

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Steven L. Jacques "Curriculum in biomedical optics and laser-tissue interactions", Proc. SPIE 9663, Eighth International Topical Meeting on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics, 96630N (6 October 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2207352

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