This book introduces senior‎-level and postgraduate students to the principles and applications of biophotonics‎.‎ It also serves as a valuable reference resource or as a short‎-course textbook for practicing physicians‎,‎ clinicians‎,‎ biomedical researchers‎,‎ healthcare professionals‎,‎ and biomedical engineers and technicians dealing with the design‎,‎ development‎,‎ and application of photonics components and instrumentation to biophotonics issues‎.‎ The topics include the fundamentals of optics and photonics‎,‎ the optical properties of biological tissues‎,‎ light‎-tissue interactions‎,‎ microscopy for visualizing tissue components‎,‎ spectroscopy for optically analyzing the properties of tissue‎,‎ and optical biomedical imaging‎.‎ It also describes tools and techniques such as laser and LED optical sources‎,‎ photodetectors‎,‎ optical fibers‎,‎ bioluminescent probes for labeling cells‎,‎ optical‎-based biosensors‎,‎ surface plasmon resonance‎,‎ and lab‎-on‎-a‎-chip technologies‎.‎Among the applications are optical coherence tomography ‎(‎OCT‎)‎‎,‎ optical imaging modalities‎,‎ photodynamic therapy ‎(‎PDT‎)‎‎,‎ photobiostimulation or low‎-level light therapy ‎(‎LLLT‎)‎‎,‎ diverse microscopic and spectroscopic techniques‎,‎ tissue characterization‎,‎ laser tissue ablation‎,‎ optical trapping‎,‎ and optogenetics‎.‎ Worked examples further explain the material and how it can be applied to practical designs‎,‎ and the homework problems help test readers‎'‎ understanding of the text‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Gerd Keiser
• Publisher‎:‎ Springer
• ISBN‎:‎ 9789811009433