This course aims to provide students an overview of the field of laser medicine/biomedical optics with special emphasis on several emerging biomedical optical imaging techniques. 

Course Requirement:

1. Class sessions will be conducted by lectures, students’ presentations, and discussions. 
2. Each student is required to pick up a topic and make presentation in class. The topic shall be approved by the instructor. 
3. The Power-Point slides should be delivered to the instructor, teaching assistant and students via e-mail and ceiba three days prior to presentation. 
4. Each student is required to write a term paper at the end of the semester. The topic of the term paper needs to be approved by the instructor. 
5. Attendance for all classes and active class participation is strongly encouraged. 
6. The course evaluation will be based on midterm (30%) problem sets (40%), and final presentation/term paper (30%)