Handbook of Biomedical Optics

Zusatztext "? a great resource for scientists and graduate students in biomedical engineering and optics. In addition to providing background information on classical optics! irradiation guidelines and tissue optical properties! this book offers a thorough treatment of tomographic and microscopic imaging technologies."-Optics & Photonics News! January 2013"This handbook is a successful attempt to provide as much as possible information to a number of physicists! R&D engineers! clinicians and scientists who would like to apply contemporary concepts and techniques to solving biomedical diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. It often covers areas that are not conventionally addressed! and is generally thought-provoking and brain-stimulating ? . The book can serve as an excellent tutorial for students and young investigators finding their way through the intense and exciting field of biomedical optics. It is a relevant reference for scientists and also a good teaching tool. ? a good balance between introductory knowledge and high-level expertise! without burdening the reader with excessive data. What makes it really unique is its scope. This is a handbook of thirty-five chapters! covering an enormous breadth of material? . An additional value is that the book is truly state of the art."-Boris Gramatikov! Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine! Biomedical Engineering Online! February 2012"Handbook of Biomedical Optics is a useful addition as an overall source to help educate the new and present generation of graduate students! researchers! and medical professionals. ? highly recommend it. It provides an in-depth review and overall treatment covering most areas of biomedicine from the ground-level foundations of optics to background on photon transport in tissues! theory! and experiments. ? Handbook of Biomedical Optics is a major contribution to the biomedical optics field and will serve as a great resource."-Journal of Biomedical Optics! December 2011 Informationen zum Autor Dr. David A. Boas is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Medical School and Associate Physicist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his Bachelors Degree in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY in 1991 and his Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, also in Physics. His research interests include the following: photon migration in highly scattering media with emphasis on diffuse optical tomography, clinical applications of diffuse optical tomography in brain and breast radiology and fundamental studies of brain function and stroke using diffuse optical tomography and optical microscopy. Dr. Boas has been an Associate Editor of Optics Express and Guest Editor of Medical Physics and Journal of Biomedical Optics. He is a member of SPIE and the Optical Society of America (OSA), and has served as Conference Program Chair for various OSA topical meetings. Dr. Constantinos Pitris is an Assistant Professor in the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus. He completed his studies at the University of Texas at Austin (BS Honors in Electrical Engineering, 1993, MS in Electrical Engineering, 1995), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D. in Electrical and Medical Engineering, 2000), and Harvard Medical School (MO Magna Cum Laude in Medicine, 2002). He has worked as a research assistant at the University of Texas and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and as a postdoctoral associate at the Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His main research interests cover the areas of optics and biomedical imaging. The goal of this research is the introduction of new technologies in clinical applications for the improvement of diagnostic and therapeutic options. He is an active member of the OSA and a reviewer for Optics...

List of contents

Background. Spectroscopy and Spectral Imaging. Tomographic Imaging. Microscopic Imaging. Molecular Probe Development. Phototherapy.

Report

"... a great resource for scientists and graduate students in biomedical engineering and optics. In addition to providing background information on classical optics, irradiation guidelines and tissue optical properties, this book offers a thorough treatment of tomographic and microscopic imaging technologies."
-Optics & Photonics News, January 2013
"This handbook is a successful attempt to provide as much as possible information to a number of physicists, R&D engineers, clinicians and scientists who would like to apply contemporary concepts and techniques to solving biomedical diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. It often covers areas that are not conventionally addressed, and is generally thought-provoking and brain-stimulating ... . The book can serve as an excellent tutorial for students and young investigators finding their way through the intense and exciting field of biomedical optics. It is a relevant reference for scientists and also a good teaching tool. ... a good balance between introductory knowledge and high-level expertise, without burdening the reader with excessive data. What makes it really unique is its scope. This is a handbook of thirty-five chapters, covering an enormous breadth of material... . An additional value is that the book is truly state of the art."
-Boris Gramatikov, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering Online, February 2012
"Handbook of Biomedical Optics is a useful addition as an overall source to help educate the new and present generation of graduate students, researchers, and medical professionals. ... highly recommend it. It provides an in-depth review and overall treatment covering most areas of biomedicine from the ground-level foundations of optics to background on photon transport in tissues, theory, and experiments. ... Handbook of Biomedical Optics is a major contribution to the biomedical optics field and will serve a

Product details

• Authors: David A. Pitris Boas
• Assisted by: David A. Boas (Editor), Boas David A. (Editor), Constantinos Pitris (Editor), Pitris Constantinos (Editor), Nimmi Ramanujam (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.06.2011
• EAN: 9781420090369
• ISBN: 978-1-4200-9036-9
• No. of pages: 832
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Pharmacy; SCIENCE / Physics / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Lasers & Photonics, SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light, MEDICAL / Biotechnology, Electrical Engineering, Optical physics, Biomedical engineering