User-friendly graphical user interface for simulating tissue optical properties and fluence rates: improving students learning in tissue optics

Marcelo Saito Nogueira; Jacqueline Elizabeth Gunther; Katarzyna Komolibus; Stefan Andersson-Engels

doi:10.1117/12.2546811

24 March 2020 User-friendly graphical user interface for simulating tissue optical properties and fluence rates: improving students learning in tissue optics

Marcelo Saito Nogueira, Jacqueline Elizabeth Gunther, Katarzyna Komolibus, Stefan Andersson-Engels

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Proceedings Volume 11238, Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells XXXI; 112380B (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2546811
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2020, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Tissue optics education can use several open-source tools available online. Even though these tools can be accessed by a broad student population, education environments, especially during outreach activities, may require more user-friendly and high speed tools that do not require previous programming experience. Then, quick estimators of tissue optical properties based on the tissue chromophore composition and analytical solvers based on diffusion equation can be a more suitable option for short events. In this study, we evaluated students experience during 1.5 hour of computer activities using a tissue-optics computer app. These activities were scheduled during a 7-hour biophotonics workshop given to undergraduate students in 2018 and 2019. Our results suggest the app is user-friendly and suitable for outreach activities. The use of our app may contribute to improve teaching and learning in biomedical optics and biophotonics.

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Marcelo Saito Nogueira, Jacqueline Elizabeth Gunther, Katarzyna Komolibus, and Stefan Andersson-Engels "User-friendly graphical user interface for simulating tissue optical properties and fluence rates: improving students learning in tissue optics", Proc. SPIE 11238, Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells XXXI, 112380B (24 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2546811

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