Courses
BME 6938 - Light & Laser-Tissue Interactions (3 credits) Comprehensive introduction to the theory and modeling of light and laser-tissue interactions. Tissue optical properties, radiative transport theory, and Monte Carlo modeling of photon propagation in tissue; tissue thermal properties, bioheat transfer equation, and finite difference modeling of heat transfer in tissue; tissue thermal damage and Arrhenius damage integral; ablation; photochemical interactions.
BME 6938 - Cancer Biology, Diagnosis, and Therapy for Engineers (3 credits) Introduction to the biology, diagnosis, and therapy of cancer. Examples of topics to be covered include tumor initiation and progression to the malignant state, metastatic cascade, tumor hypoxia and molecular oxygen sensing, tumor angiogenesis and aberrant microvasculature, cancer screening and imaging, screening test evaluation including 2x2 tables and receiver-operator characteristic curves, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hyperthermia, photodynamic therapy. Quantitative mathematical modeling and analysis are used as appropriate.
