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Elson's unofficial BIOMEDE552 (Biomedical Optics) homepage

Official course information

• CTools

Textbooks

1. E. Hecht, Optics
2. J.H. Moore, C.C. Davis, and M.A. Coplan, Building Scientific Apparatus

Course project ideas

• Tissue optics
  1. W.F. Cheong, S.A. Prahl, and A.J. Welch, "A review of the optical properties of biological tissues," IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol.26, no.12, pp.2166-2185, Dec 1990
• Diffuse optical tomography / photon migration
  1. A P Gibson, J C Hebden and S R Arridge, "Recent advances in diffuse optical imaging," Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 50, pp. R1-R43, 2005.
  2. D A Boas, M A O’Leary, B Chance and A G Yodh, "Scattering of diffuse photon density waves by spherical inhomogeneities within turbid media: analytic solution and applications," Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, vol. 91, pp. 4887–91, 1994.
• Confocal microscopy
  • Structured illumination
    1. M. A. A. Neil, R. Juskaitis, and T. Wilson, "Method of obtaining optical sectioning by using structured light in a conventional microscope," Opt. Lett. 22, 1905-1907 (1997)
  • Speckle illumination
    1. C. Ventalon and J. Mertz, "Quasi-confocal fluorescence sectioning with dynamic speckle illumination," Opt. Lett. 30, 3350-3352 (2005)
• Quantitative phase microscopy
  • Fourier phase microscopy
    1. G. Popescu, L. P. Deflores, J. C. Vaughan, K. Badizadegan, H. Iwai, R. R. Dasari and M. S. Feld, "Fourier phase microscopy for investigation of biological structures and dynamics," Opt. Lett., vol. 29, 2503-2505 (2004).
  • Hilbert phase microscopy
    1. T. Ikeda, G. Popescu, R. R. Dasari, and M. S. Feld, "Hilbert phase microscopy for investigating fast dynamics in transparent systems," Opt. Lett. 30, 1165-1167 (2005)
  • Diffraction phase microscopy
    1. Y. Park, G. Popescu, K. Badizadegan, R. R. Dasari, and M. S. Feld, "Diffraction phase and fluorescence microscopy," Opt. Express 14, 8263-8268 (2006)
• Optical coherence tomography
  1. J. M. Schmitt, "Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT): A Review," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1205-1215, 1999.
  2. A. F. Fercher, C. K. Hitzenberger, C. K. Kamp and S. Y. El-Zayat, "Measurement of intraocular distances by backscattering spectral interferometry," Optics Communications vol. 117, no. 1-2, pp. 43-48, 1995.
• Optical diagnosis of glaucoma
  1. R. N. Weinreb and P. T. Khaw, “Primary open-angle glaucoma,” Lancet, vol. 363, pp. 1711–1720, 2004.
  2. M. J. Greaney, D. C. Hoffman, D. F. Garway-Heath, M. Makla, A. L. Coleman, and J. Caprioli, “Comparison of optic nerve imaging methods to distinguish normal eyes from those with glaucoma,” Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 140–145, January 2002.
  • Optical coherence tomography
  • Scanning laser polarimetry / ellipsometry
    1. P. S. Hauge, "Mueller matrix ellipsometry with imperfect compensators," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 68, 1519- (1978)
    2. R. M. A. Azzam, "Photopolarimetric measurement of the Mueller matrix by Fourier analysis of a single detected signal," Opt. Lett. 2, 148-150 (1978)
    3. R. N. Weinreb, A. W. Dreher, and J. F. Bille, “Quantitative assessment of the optic nerve head with the laser tomographic scanner,” International Ophthalmology, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 25–29, January 1989.
    4. A. W. Dreher, J. F. Bille, and R. N. Weinreb, "Active optical depth resolution improvement of the laser tomographic scanner," Appl. Opt. 28, 804-808 (1989)
    5. R. N. Weinreb, A. W. Dreher, A. Coleman, H. Quigley, B. Shaw, and K. Reiter, “Histopathologic validation of Fourier-ellipsometry measurements of retinal nerve fiber layer thickness,” Archives of Ophthalmology, vol. 108, pp. 557–560, 1990.
    6. R. N. Weinreb, L. Zangwill; C. C. Berry, R. Bathija, and P. A. Sample, "Detection of Glaucoma With Scanning Laser Polarimetry," Archives of Ophthalmology, vol. 116, pp. 1583-1589, 1998.
    7. "Understanding Nerve Fiber Layer Analysis," Handbook of Ocular Disease Management