{"id":1256,"date":"2024-08-03T17:31:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T21:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rochester.edu\/biomedical-spectroscopy\/?page_id=1256"},"modified":"2024-08-05T10:07:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T14:07:44","slug":"biomedical-optics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rochester.edu\/biomedical-spectroscopy\/biomedical-optics\/","title":{"rendered":"Biomedical Optics"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"class_list":["post-1256","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"lead_in":"","display_title":"An introduction to biomedical optics","subtitle":"","call_to_action":"","hero_image_placement":"no_image","hero_media":"images","hero_pattern_option":"","hero_video":"","hero_image_landing":"","hero_image_landing_two":"","hero_image_landing_three":"","content_modules":[{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion_new","anchor_id":"","classes":"","title":"

Helpful information<\/h3>","description":"If you are new to biomedical optics, here are some lists to let you know \"what's out there\".","background":"plain","background_color":"#ffffff","style":"row_icons","expand":"no","accordions":[{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion","accordion_title":"Some other major biomedical optics programs in the US","icon":"{\"family\":\"classic\",\"style\":\"solid\",\"id\":\"school\",\"label\":\"School\",\"unicode\":\"f549\"}","row_content":"
[su_row][su_column size=\"1\/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\nDuke\r\n\r\nVanderbilt\r\n\r\nJohns Hopkins\r\n\r\nUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign\r\n[\/su_column]\r\n[su_column size=\"1\/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]Boston University\r\n\r\nRice\r\n\r\nUniversity of California, Irvine\r\n\r\nWellman Laboratory, Mass General Hospital\r\n[\/su_column]\r\n[\/su_row]\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>","accordion_anchor":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion","accordion_title":"Good textbooks","icon":"{\"family\":\"classic\",\"style\":\"solid\",\"id\":\"books\",\"label\":\"Books\",\"unicode\":\"f5db\"}","row_content":"
Irving Bigio and Sergio Fantini,\u00a0Quantitative Biomedical Optics: Theory, Methods, and Applications<\/a>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press)<\/p>\r\n
Jerome Mertz,\u00a0Introduction to Optical Microscopy<\/a>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press)<\/p>\r\n
Catherine Boudoux, Fundamentals of Biomedical Optics<\/a>\u00a0(Blurb, also Amazon)<\/p>\r\n
Lihong Wong and Hsin-I Wu, Biomedical Optics: Principles and Imaging<\/a> (Wiley)<\/p>\r\n
Robert Splinter and Brett A. Hooper, An Introduction to Biomedical Optics<\/a>\u00a0(Taylor & Francis)<\/p>","accordion_anchor":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion","accordion_title":"Various internet resources","icon":"{\"family\":\"classic\",\"style\":\"solid\",\"id\":\"globe\",\"label\":\"Globe\",\"unicode\":\"f0ac\"}","row_content":"MCX<\/a> (Monte Carlo eXtreme), a flexible and powerful open-source platform for photon propagation simulation, led by Qianqian Fang at Northeastern University\r\n\r\nAssorted spectra<\/a> (biological and exogenous), including oxy- and deoxy-hemoglobin, hosted by the Oregon Medical Laser Institute\r\n\r\n ","accordion_anchor":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion","accordion_title":"Conferences to attend","icon":"{\"family\":\"classic\",\"style\":\"solid\",\"id\":\"handshake\",\"label\":\"Handshake\",\"unicode\":\"f2b5\"}","row_content":"BiOS track at SPIE Photonics West:<\/strong> largest and most comprehensive, every year, late Jan\/early Feb\r\n\r\nOptica conferences:<\/strong> smaller, in April, every second year\r\n