In the beginning of the course, you will assign to a project in groups of two. The project is a central part throughout the course. According to the course description, each student is supposed to spend 80 hours on the project. At the end of the course, each project will be presented both in a written report and as an oral presentation for the other students participating. The students are supposed to perform literature searches on the specific topic of interests for their projects. During the introduction lecture, there will be a short introduction to the tools and the services of the library. In every project description,  there is a list of relevant key-words for the literature searches. You should use at least two databases of interest, Web of Science and PubMed. The use of the function My Course Library will facilitate an efficient use of the resources at Lund University Library, and is thus strongly recommended. Before copying and ordering more than a few articles, you are welcome to consult the course leader for review of the material.

The final report should be carefully written as an article in the style of a review and include Abstract, Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions and References. The references should be in a chosen journal format. The report will be checked for originality using the program URKUND. This is to quality check your report and ensure you have not copied any text from other sources, as that obviously is considered fraud.

Each project team is supposed to give a 15 minutes long oral presentation for the other students participating in the course.The project will be graded based on both the written report and the oral presentation. The grades will be translated to points to the written examination. The grades of the project will be based on the quality of the work performed and of the presentation.Consider especially to understand and present the scientific problem and what has been done to solve it. It is considered an asset, if you can couple your project actively to the course content, i.e. by performing simulations. This will be possible to different degrees for different projects, which will be considered when grading the projects.

Questions during the course can preferably be asked during the open question hours found in the schedule. At those time slots, the course leader is supposed to be at the assigned location. Questions can also be submitted by e-mail to the address Cord.Arnold@Fysik.lth.se.

Typical project topics are:

1. Probe volume for NIR Raman spectroscopy
2. Interstitial thermotherapy with laser - how does carbonisation influence the treated volume?
3. NIR laser irradiation - how does the heating depend on illumination size and pulse length?
4. Why do sub-dermal blood vessels look blue?
5. How deep can you probe with laser-Doppler flowmetry?
6. Interstitial photodynamic therapy
7. Depth resolved fluorescence spectroscopy
8. Design a system for optical mammography
9. Coagulation of visible sub-dermal blood vessels
10. Characterization of bruises
11. Can you see what a person is thinking - optical measurements of brain activity