Biomedical Applications of Light Scattering

by Adam Wax, Vadim Backman

Overview

• Clinical applications include: detecting pre-cancerous and cancerous tissue states; characterizing cell and tissue properties for identifying disease; and assessing the presence and concentration of biochemicals for diagnostic purposes
• Part of the McGraw-Hill Biophotonics Series

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071598811
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	09/22/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	350
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Adam Wax, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University.

Vadim Backman, Ph.D., is a professor of biomedical engineering at Northwestern University, where he specializes in optical imaging.

Table of Contents

Introduction – overview of classical light- scattering formalisms
Ch 1. FDTD and PSTD for modeling light scattering
Ch 2. a/LCI for detection of neoplasia
Ch 3. Enhanced backscattering spectroscopy for colon screening
Ch 4. Inverse scattering in OCT
Ch 5. Confocal LSS microscopy
Ch 6. Elastic scattering spectroscopy and optical biopsy
Ch 7. Cell ultrastructure scattering in Diffuse Optical Tomography
Ch 8. Sub-cellular light scattering for understanding photodynamic therapy
Ch 9. Light scattering in confocal reflectance microscopy
Ch 10. Dynamic light scattering for ocular diagnostics
Ch 11. Laser speckle contrast imaging of blood flow
Ch 12. Differential pathlength spectroscopy