This course will give an overview of the cutting edge medical imaging and bio-sensing techniques currently being developed, by giving special emphasis on the physics fundamentals for various system designs.
This course will be divided into two parts. First part will cover the concepts behind photonics based biosensors and its real applications. In the second part, state of the art medical imaging techniques will be covered by introducing its basics followed by instrumentation and its real applications for disease diagnosis and drug discovery. Finally a comparative analysis of these techniques will be discussed
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Year Taken: AY19/20, Sem 1
Actually I decided to take this is because I thought it would be too boring if I took the exact same set of MPEs as another senior who has a chemistry blog. I mean I already took 3 of the same MPE HAHAHA. Sometimes I think its good that I rarely talk in school since everyone is going to avoid me if people know that my priorities are so messed up.
This is a combined course for both physics and chemistry students, so the prof assured us that it will not involve too deeply in chem or physics. Which is true but the content is A LOT and the slides are very wordy cos the lecturer said it was meant to be like a textbook and we don’t need to refer to other textbooks for the course. There is a slight overlap with CM4013 as we learnt a bit on biosensors too. Those who took CM4014 will also find some of the content familiar as we learn about SERS. I feel like this course focuses more how light and sound waves are involved in imaging, there are also calculation questions but those were easier than CM3041.
There are 2 mid terms and each one is 20% of our final grade. The questions did not require us to write a lot, but we have to remember the content well. This is quite bad for me since I really cannot memorise stuff HAHA. I did better for the second one cos my friend helped me to study😍. For the finals, I just re-attempted my tutorials and pyps twice and highlighted and underlined everything. Some of the questions from tutorials came out in the final exam so please review tutorialsssss.
This review was reposted with the kind permission of Hairdryer. Originally published at https://ionhairdryer.blogspot.com/2020/06/ay-201920-ntu-spms-cbc-y4s1.html
June 13, 2021
