More profound understanding of the nature of light and light-matter interactions in biology has enabled many applications in the biology and medical fields. So a new discipline is born, namely biophotonics. The aim of this book is toreview the current state of the art of the field by means of authoritative chapters written by the world leaders of the respective fields. Biosensors, biochips, optical tomography, optical microsurgery, photodynamics therapy, bioactivation of gene, photobiology of skin, and nanobiophotonics are each introducedand recent advances presented. This book will be useful not only to doctors, biologists, physicists, chemists, materials scientists, and engineers but alsoto graduate students who are interested in these rapidly developing fields. Deals with the basics and applicatioins of the most advanced optical methods inbiology and medicine for cancer diagnosis and treatement or gene analysis. Written for researchers and medical practicioners in optical tomography, cancer treatment and research, ophtalmologists, surgeons, gene research and diagnosis. But also appealing to biologists in photobiology as well as graduate students INDICE: From the contents 1. Light conversion in photosynthetic organisms.2. Exploiting photosynthesis for biofuel production. 3. In between photosynthesis and photoinhibition: The fundamental role of carotenoids and carotenoid-binding proteins in photoprotection. 4. Nonlinear microscopy. 5. Applications of optical resonance to biological sensing and imaging: Spectral self-interference microscopy. 6. Applications of optical resonance to biological sensing andimaging: Resonant cavity biosensors. 7. Biodetection using silicon photonic crystal microcavities. 8. Optical coherence tomography with applications in cancer imaging. 9. Coherent laser measurement techniques for medical diagnostics.10. Biomarkers and luminescent probes in quantitative biology.
- ISBN: 978-3-540-76779-4
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 375
- Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés