BM2403 MEDICAL OPTICS Lecture notes for BME - Seventh (7th) semester

UNIT I OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE TISSUES
Refraction, Scattering, absorption, light transport inside the tissue, tissue properties, Light
interaction with tissues, optothermal interaction, fluorescence, speckles.

UNIT II INSTRUMENTATION IN PHOTONICS
Instrumentation for absorption, scattering and emission measurements, excitation light
sources – high pressure arc lamp, solid state LEDs, Lasers, optical filters, polarizer, solid
state detectors, time resolved and phase resolved detectors.

UNIT III APPLICATIONS OF LASERS
Laser in tissue welding, lasers in dermatology, lasers in ophthalmology, otolaryngology,
urology.

UNIT IV OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY
Optical coherence tomography, Elastrography, Doppler optical coherence tomography,
Application towards clinical imaging.

UNIT V SPECIAL OPTICAL TECHNIQUES
Near field imaging of biological structures, in vitro clinical diagnostic, fluorescent
spectroscopy, photodynamic therapy.

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