Biomedical Optics and Biophotonics detailed syllabus for Medical Electronics (MEE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the MEE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Medical Electronics 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit MEE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-I scheme and its subjects refer to MEE Professional Elective-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of biomedical optics and biophotonics is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
Basic principles of light – Reflection – Refraction – Absorption – Polarization – Interference -Coherence, Basic laws of light – Beer Lambert law – Snell’s law, Optical properties of tissues -Absorption – Scattering – Anisotropy.
Unit II
OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION
Working principle of light sources – Lasers – LEDs, Working principle of optical detectors -Photodiode – Spectrometer – CMOS and CCD cameras – Lens – Optical filters – Optical fibers.
Unit III
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Unit IV
APPLICATIONS OF LASERS
Diagnostic – Optical coherence tomography, Fluorescence, Raman, Photoacoustic tomography, Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), Hyperspectral imaging.
Surgical – Lasers in dentistry, Dermatology, Ophthalmology.
Unit V
LASER TISSUE INTERACTION
Laser tissue interactions via photochemical, Photothermal, Photomechanical techniques, Photodynamic therapy (PDT) – Oncological and non-oncological applications, Low level laser therapy (LLLT) – Biostimulation applications.
Lab Course/Mini Projects/Hospital Visit – Presentations
Students need to visit Hospitals/Research Institutes/Industry and understand the working and applications of various Optical Techniques in the Biomedical field.
- Lab course/Mini projects on interferometry techniques (Young’s double slit, Michelson and Mach-zehnder interferometry).
- Lab course/Mini projects on various spectroscopic techniques (absorption/transmission, scattering and emission spectroscopy).
- Lab course/Mini projects on optical simulations and image processing – MATLAB, COMSOL, optical softwares.
- Mini projects on Laser based Biomedical Applications
- Hospital visit to understand the working of Optical Coherence Tomography technique Hospital visit to understand the clinical applications of Lasers used in ophthalmology, dermatology, dentistry, etc.,
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Tuan Vo Dinh, “Biomedical Photonics -Handbook, CRC Press, Bocaraton, 2014.
- Jurgen Popp, Valery V. Tuchin, Arthur Chiou and Stefen Heinemann, Handbook of Biophotonics, Vol 2: Photonics for Healthcare, John Wiley and Sons, 1st Edition, 2011.
Reference Books:
- Markolf H. Niemz, “Laser-Tissue Interaction Fundamentals and Applications” Springer, 2007.
- Splinter R and Hooper B. A., “An Introduction to Biomedical Optics”, Taylor and Francis, 2006.
- Mark E. Brezinski, “Optical Coherence Tomography: Principles and Applications”, Academic Press, 2006.
- Paras N. Prasad, “Introduction to Biophotonics”, A. John Wiley and sons, Inc. Publications, 2003.
Online Resources
- https://nptel.ac.in/courses/127/105/127105225/
- https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc21 ge13/preview
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Medical Electronics 5th Sem, visit MEE 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Medical Electronics results, visit Anna University MEE all semester results direct link.