Module ME4422 T

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each summer semester

Credit points

3

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Master MES 2020, Module part of a compulsory module, medical engineering science
• Master Entrepreneurship in Digital Technologies 2020, module part, Module part
• Master Biophysics 2019, Module part of a compulsory module, biophysics
• Master Entrepreneurship in Digital Technologies 2014, module part, Module part
• Master MES 2014, Module part of a compulsory module, medical engineering science
• Master Biophysics 2023, Module part of a compulsory module, biophysics

Classes and lectures:

• Biomedical Optics 2 (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 40 hours private studies
• 20 hours exam preparation
• 30 hours in-classroom work

Contents of teaching:

• Light microscopy: geometrical optics, wave optics, Fourier optics
• Effects of incoherent and coherent microscope-illumination & technical realization
• Phase contrast and differential interference contrast (DIC)
• Marker and targeting techniques, GFP, quantum dots, FRET
• Deconvolution & optical sectioning via structured illumination, confocal microscopy, 2-photon imaging
• Nanoscopy beyond the Abbe-limit: principles and biological applications
• Optical coherence tomography (OCT): principles, technical realization, and clinical applications
• Opto-acoustic tomography and microscopy
• Electron microscopy: principles and biological applications of TEM, REM, and Cryo-EM

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• The students have a profound understanding and knowledge of modern optical imaging techniques in biomedicine, are able to describe and illustrate them, and to relate them to applications.
• They can explain the light-tissue interaction relevant for the different techniques, describe them mathematically and predict their effects.
• The students are able to understand and classify complex optical imaging techniques as a whole and to analyze their constitutents.
• They are able to transfer and adopt their knowledge to related problems and to develop new concepts.

Grading through:

• exam type depends on main module

Requires:

• Module part: Biomedical Optics 1 (ME4421 T)

Responsible for this module:

• Siehe Hauptmodul

Teacher:

• Institute of Biomedical Optics
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Robert Huber
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Gereon Hüttmann
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Sebastian Karpf
• Dr. rer. nat. Norbert Linz
• Dr. rer. nat. Ralf Brinkmann

Literature:

• D. B. Murphy : Fundamentals of Light Microscopy and Electronic Imaging Wiley-Liss 2001
• J. Mertz : Optical Microscopy Roberts & Co. Publ. 2010
• J.B. Pawley (ed) : Handbook of Confocal Microscopy Springer 2006
• W. Drexler, J.G. Fujimoto (eds.) : Optical Coherence Tomography Springer 2008
• L. Wang (ed) : Photoacoustic Imaging and Spectroscoy CRC Press 2009

Language:

• offered only in German

Notes:

Last Updated:

02.11.2020