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Dr Guillaume Hennequin, Prof Máté Lengyel , Dr Graham Treece, and Dr S Huang
Timing and Structure
Weeks 1-4 Easter term, 14 lectures + 2 examples classes, 4 hours/week.
Aims
The aims of the course are to:
- enable students to appreciate the vast potential for the application of engineering principles in biology and medicine, and learn about four specific application areas in which Part I engineering principles can be applied to
- gain insight into visual processing and optimality in eye design.
- study the structure and function of the eye.
- study the design of ocular prostheses.
- study medical imaging of the components of the eye.
Content
Visual processing (3L, Dr Guillaume Hennequin)
- From eye to brain.
- Spatial, depth & colour vision.
- Retinal and cortical neural prostheses.
Biological vision with an engineers eye (3L, Prof Máté Lengyel)
- Evolution in eye design:optimal optics.
- Approaching physical limits; retinal patterning and processing.
- Encoding visual scenes in the brain; optimal information processing.
Imaging of the eye (4L, Dr Graham Treece)
- Optical fundus imaging and the scanning laser ophthalmoscope.
- 2D and 3D optical coherence tomography.
- Ocular ultrasonography.
- Visualisation of 3D data.
Introduction and Ocular biomechanics and biomaterials (4L, Prof Michael Sutcliffe)
- Healthy eye and ocular biomechanics.
- Structural and mechanical diseases of the eye.
- Lens and cornea replacement and transplantation.
- Future eye repair practices:tissue engineering.
Booklists
Wang, L.V. & Wu, H.-I. Biomedical Optics: Principles and Imaging, Wiley, 2007.
- Engineering Library: DB.158 and Part IB Tripos shelves
Examination Guidelines
Please refer to Form & conduct of the examinations.
UK-SPEC
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