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PAPER 8 – SELECTED TOPICS (6)

Engineering for the Life Sciences

Engineering Applied to the Living World

Leader:

Dr. G. M. Treece

Timing:	Weeks 1-4 Easter term, 2pm-3pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays
Structure:	14 lectures + 2 examples classes, 4 hours/week

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.
the design of ocular prostheses.
medical imaging of the components of the eye.

Leader: Dr. G. M. Treece. Lecturers: Prof. Daniel Wolpert, Dr. Máté Lengyel, Dr. Michelle Oyen

TOPICS

Introduction and Ocular biomechanics and biomaterials (4L, Dr. M. Oyen)

Healthy eye and ocular biomechanics
Structural and mechanical diseases of the eye
Lens and cornea replacement and transplantation
Future eye repair practices:tissue engineering

Imaging of the eye (4L, Dr G. Treece)

Optical fundus imaging and the scanning laser ophthalmoscope
2D and 3D optical coherence tomography
Ocular ultrasonography
Visualisation of 3D data

Examples Class (Dr. M. Oyen/Dr. G. Treece)

Visual processing (3L, Prof. D. Wolpert)

From eye to brain
Spatial, depth & colour vision.
Retinal and cortical neural prostheses

Biological vision with an engineers eye (3L, Dr M Lengyel)

Evolution in eye design:optimal optics
Approaching physical limits; retinal patterning and processing
Encoding visual scenes in the brain ; optimal information processing

Examples Class (Prof. D. Wolpert/Dr. M. Lengyel)

Sample exam paper PDF

Crib for sample exam paper PDF

REFERENCES

Please see the Booklist for Part IB Courses for references to this module.

Last updated: May 2012

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