Das Foto zeigt eine Seminargruppe, die dem Vortrag eines Dozenten zuhört. © PantherMedia / kasto Das Foto zeigt zwei Personen vor einem Mikroskop. © Julia Walther

Our department

The Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering researches and develops innovative biophotonic technologies for improved non-invasive medical diagnostics in everyday clinical practice. Our focus is on biomedical optics for enhanced high-contrast imaging and characterization of tissue structures in situ and in vivo. Optical methods we favor are optical coherence tomography (OCT), spectroscopy (infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, Brillouin spectroscopy) and multiphoton microscopy (CARS, TPEF, SHG). In smaller application-oriented projects, we also work on camera-based optical solutions such as hyperspectral and multispectral imaging.

In addition, the Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering department is responsible for the training of 1st semester students of human medicine, dentistry and biomedical engineering in the subject of physics. The subject matter includes both the fundamentals and applications of physics in medicine and dentistry.

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Important topics at a glance

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Employees

The Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering comprises a dedicated interdisciplinary team of engineers, physicists and scientists who research and develop innovative solutions for translational biomedical optics together with the clinical partners of the University Hospital Dresden.
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Final theses

Are you looking for a topic for your student research project or thesis? We offer topics in the field of optical coherence tomography (OCT), spectroscopy (Raman, Brillouin) and camera-based imaging (HSI, MSI) for engineering and science courses. Get in touch with us!
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Cooperation KSM

We develop and conduct research in close collaboration with the Clinical Sensoring and Monitoring working group headed by Prof. Edmund Koch. We can draw on many years of cooperation and a large number of joint developments in the field of optical coherence tomography and infrared spectroscopy.
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Medicine, life sciences and biophotonics

Our young interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers emerged from the Clinical Sensing and Monitoring working group headed by Prof. Edmund Koch. In 2022, the management of the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering was handed over to PD Dr. Julia Walther. Together as department, we look forward to shaping the newly assigned teaching and research mandate with motivation and commitment, and look forward to our existing and new research projects, collaborations and teaching assignments.