Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
CHAPTER
17
Biomedical Optics and Lasers
Gerard L. Cot ´ , PhD, LiHong V. Wang, PhD,
and Sohi Rastegar, PhD
OUTLINE
17.1 Introduction to Essential Optical
Principles
17.5 Fundamentals of the Photothermal
Therapeutic Effects of Light
Sources
1112
1147
17.2 Fundamentals of Light Propagation
in Biological Tissue 1118
17.3 Physical Interaction of Light and
Physical Sensing
17.6 Fiber Optics and Waveguides in
Medicine
1158
1130
17.7 Biomedical Optical Imaging
1165
17.4 Biochemical Measurement
Techniques Using Light
17.8 Exercises
1170
1139
Suggested Readings
1172
AT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS CHAPTER, STUDENTS WILL BE
ABLE TO:
￿ Understand essential optical principles and
fundamentals of light propagation in tissue,
as well as other biological and biochemical
media.
￿ Utilize basic engineering principles for
developing therapeutic, diagnostic, sensing,
and imaging devices with a focus on the use
of lasers and optical technology.
￿ Describe the biochemical and biophysical
interactions of optic and fiber optic systems
with biological tissue.
￿ Understand the photothermal interactions of
laser systems with biological tissue.
 
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