Designing a MATLAB-based escape room

Abstract

Escape rooms promote creative thinking, teamwork, communication, and cooperation, making them valuable tools for educational applications. However, physical escape rooms can be expensive to construct, impractical for temporary use, and difficult to adapt for large classes. To address these limitations, we designed a MATLAB-based escape room for BME 303L: Modern Diagnostic Imaging Systems. BME 303L is generally comprised of approximately 70 undergraduate biomedical engineering students at Duke University each spring. This upper-level core class, taken by juniors and seniors, covers the mathematical and physical bases underlying medical imaging modalities including x-ray, computed tomography (CT), ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and nuclear medicine.