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BE 517 Optical Imaging

Prerequisite(s): ESE 310 and ESE 325 or equivalent.

A modern introduction to the physical principles of optical imaging with biomedical applications.  Propagation and interference of electromagnetic waves.  Geometrical optics and the eikonal.  Plane-wave expansions, diffraction and the Rayleigh criterion.  Scattering theory and the Born approximation.  Introduction to inverse problems.  Multiple scattering and radiative transport.  Diffusion approximation and physical optics of diffusing waves.  Imaging in turbid media. 
 
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