Discusses the basic physical principles underlying biomedical photonics, spectroscopy, and microscopy

This volume discusses biomedical photonics, spectroscopy, and microscopy, the basic physical principles underlying the technology and its applications. The topics discussed in this volume are: Fluorescence; Single Molecule Detection and Spectroscopy; Resonance Energy Transfer; Biophotonics of Photosynthesis; Optical Sectioning Microscopy and Biological Imaging; Cell Handling and Sorting; Tissue Polarimetry; Optical Waveguide Biosensors; Light Propagation in Highly Scattering Turbid Media; Photodynamic Therapy; Imaging and Probing Cells beyond the Diffraction Limit; and Ophthalmic Technology.

• Comprehensive and accessible coverage of the whole of modern photonics
• Emphasizes processes and applications that specifically exploit photon attributes of light
• Deals with the rapidly advancing area of modern optics
• Chapters are written by top scientists in their field

Written for the graduate-level student in physical sciences; industrial and academic researchers in photonics, graduate students in the area; college lecturers, educators, policymakers, consultants, scientific and technical libraries, government laboratories, NIH.