BIOGRAPHY:

Moses Jojo Eghan a Professor at LAFOC – Laser and Fiber Optics Centre (LAFOC) and Department of Physics, School of Physical Sciences, College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences (CANS), University of Cape Coast (UCC).  He obtained his PhD in Physics (Applied Optics) from the University of Cape Coast, with support from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy in 2001.  He has been part of the research group in applied optical spectroscopy and imaging at LAFOC since 1993 and since 2008 has led in many applied optics research at the Centre. His research interest includes Laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy, Optical imaging and digital image processing. He has also done some collaborative research in the field of computer science. He has taught courses such as Lasers and optical physics, Applied optics, Waves, acoustics and vibrations, Fibre optics, Computing and numerical methods and Computing for physicist at University of Cape Coast (UCC).  

LECTURE: "Applied Optics Research: Laser Induced Fluorescence as a technique"

Laser Induced Fluorescence and Laser Induced Autofluorescence, combined with multivariate techniques can be used in identifying Antimalaria herbal plants, Antimatlaria herbal products, discriminate severity in Induced cataract in Dawley rats and shelf life of some bottles Natural fruit drinks. Utilization of these fluorescence techniques involves the use of deconvolution of various spectra and the use of training sets from principal components analysis of the spectra data with the use of some machine learning algorithms: K-Nearest Neighbour, Support Vector Machine and Linear Discriminant Analysis. Malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, uses haemoglobin in host red blood cells (RBCs) as a major source of nutrient in ring and trophozoite stages. This brings about changes in the morphology and functional characteristics of the RBCs. Our investigations show that four spectral bands are found to be markers for identifying infected and uninfected RBCs for-ring and trophozoite stages using multispectral imaging technique: These four spectral bands may offer potential diagnostic markers for identifying infected and uninfected RBCs, as well as distinguishing the ring and the trophozoite stages.