Biophotonics-Nanotechnology
This course addresses to the students who attend the Inter-departmental Program of Postgraduate Studies “Biomedical Engineering”. This course is co-organised by the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, the School of Mechanical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens and the School of Medicine of the University of Patras. The course includes the following topics:
Basic concepts of interactions between light and biological macromolecules and cells
- Cells
- DNA
- Proteins
- Interactions between light and molecules
- Spectroscopy of biological macromolecules
- Fluorescence spectroscopy of biological macromolecules
- Non-linear optical properties of biological macromolecules
- Light – cells interactions
- Diffusion theory
- Transport theory
Theoretical approach of light scattering to cells and tissues
Optical NanoBioImaging
- Fluorescence microscopic imaging
- Non-linear optical imaging
- Spectral imaging
- Optical tomography
- Fluorescent probes –fluorophores
- Confocal microscopy
- Structural and Functional Cellular imaging.
Optical Biosensors
- Principles of optical biosensing
- Bioirecognition, fluorescent biosensors
- Fiber-optic biosensors
- Interferometric biosensors
- Surface Plasmon Resonance biosensors
- Evanescent wave biosensors
- Single molecule optical detection
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Prof. Dido Yova, Dr. Eleni Alexandratou