Optical Diagnostics is as old as medicine but with the advent of new technologies in light generation, light reception and image analysis - many borrowed from the field of Photonics and some based on the increased capabilities of modern computers - many view this field as the "Next Big Thing" in Health Care. The 2001 Summer Education Series reviewed the state of the current and even future art .

DATE	TITLE	SPEAKERS
July 10, 2001	Applying Optical Techniques to Medical Diagnostics	Brett Bouma, PhD, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
July 17, 2001	New Technological Developments for OCT Confocal Microscopy in Thick Tissue	Brett Bouma, PhD, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital Gary Tearney, MD, PhD, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, MGH
July 24, 2001	Optical Diagnostic Technologies	Gary Tearney, MD, PhD, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, MGH

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