Final Year Students 2001

Ha Dang Ha's project involved theoretical modelling of light propagation in tissue using Monte Carlo simulation. She loves: cats, birds, ducks, plants, shopping, soccer, football, mushrooms, and whinging.
Garth Lucas Garth studied Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Computer Science for 4 years majoring in Control and IT Systems. His final year project was on OCT and increasing its frame rates towards a goal of real time. When he is not at uni he enjoys doing other stuff but, because that does not happen, he has forgotten what that is.
Ross McKerracher Ross's project involved the construction and characterisation of a rapid scanning confocal gate for the OCT system, with a view to increasing the range and/or resolution of the system. Outside of his uni life, Ross occasionally manages to eke out some semblance of a life, and also has hobbies which include chasing flying bits of plastic (Ultimate frisbee), avoiding car doors whilst cycling down Hampden Rd and SCUBA diving.
Heather McPherson Heather started combined Sci/Eng in 1997, completed the Science degree in 2000, majoring in Physiology, and completed the Electrical and Electronic Engineering degree at the end of 2001. She hopes to work in the field of Biomedical Engineering, possibly in the eastern states. In her spare time (of which she has little), she enjoys drawing, reading the occasional sci-fi novel, and eating cookies-and-cream icecream.
Nicholas Price For most students, juggling time is a metaphor for their hectic lifestyle. For Nic, juggling time is his lifestyle. However, when not attempting to keep a large number of inanimate objects airborne, he has been known to participate in electrophysiological and psychophysical investigations of vision. Occasionally, he even thinks about optimal methods for improving OCT images through deconvolution.
Luke Smith Luke's project involved the design and construction of a low noise, wide bandwidth photoreceiver using an InGaAs photodetector to detect light in the near infra-red spectrum (900-1700nm). The photoreceiver should be able to be used in the lab across a number of projects. Luke was an Engineering/Science double degree student having completed a Bachelor of Science (Physiology) in 2000. Outside university his interests include squash, basketball, guitar, and youth work.
Cindy Thamrin Cindy was a final year Biomedical engineering student at OBEL. As part of the Optical Ranging Project, her project involves characterising the behaviour of laser light upon reaching epithelial tissue in the upper airway, and its re-entry into an optical fibre probe. She enjoys reading, reminiscing about the days when she had more time to do reading, and telling people that she's not whinging, really.