Biomaterials

Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics

Biophotonics is the subject that deals with the study of optical procedures in biological systems, composed those which occur naturally and in bioengineered materials. The important feature of this field is imaging and detecting cells and tissue. It also comprises of injecting fluorescent markers into a biological system to track cell dynamics and drug delivery. Biophotonics is similarly used to study biological materials or materials with assets like biological material, i.e., scattering material, on a microscopic or macroscopic scale. On the microscopic scale common applications encompass microscopy and optical coherence tomography. On the macroscopic scale, the light is diffuse and applications normally deal with diffuse optical imaging and tomography. Biomedical optics accents on the design and application of advanced optical techniques to resolve problems in medicine and biology.