1st Edition

A Laboratory Manual in Biophotonics

By Vadim Backman, Adam Wax, Hao F. Zhang Copyright 2018
320 Pages
by CRC Press

319 Pages 153 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

319 Pages 153 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Biophotonics is a burgeoning field that has afforded researchers and medical practitioners alike an invaluable tool for implementing optical microscopy. Recent advances in research have enabled scientists to measure and visualize the structural composition of cells and tissue while generating applications that aid in the detection of diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, and atherosclerosis.... Read more

1. General Introductory Topics 2. Optics Components and Electronic Equipment 3. Fundamental Light–Tissue Interactions: Light Scattering and Absorption 4. Microscopic Tissue Imaging 5. Tissue Spectroscopy 6. Computational Biophotonics

Biography

Vadim Backman is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University in Evansville, Illinois.