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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
| Publisher | SPIE |
| Volume | 9663 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2003 |
| Event | 8th International Topical Meeting on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics - Tucson, United States Duration: Oct 6 2003 → … |
Other
| Other | 8th International Topical Meeting on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Tucson |
| Period | 10/6/03 → … |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Applied Mathematics
- Computer Science Applications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics
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Jacques, S. (2003). Curriculum in biomedical optics and laser-tissue interactions. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 9663). [96630N] SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2207352