Research Catalog

Title

An introduction to biomedical optics / R. Splinter, B.A. Hooper.

Author

Splinter, Robert.

Publication

New York : Taylor & Francis, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

Hooper, Brett Andrew, 1961-

Description

602 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Series in optics and optoelectronics

Uniform Title

Series in optics and optoelectronics (CRC Press)

Subjects

• Biotechnology
• Optical fibers in medicine
• Biomedical Technology
• Optics and Photonics
• Biophysics > methods
• Biomedicine
• Light
• Photobiology > methods
• Optoelectronic devices

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction to the use of light for diagnostic and therapeutic modalities -- 2. Review of optical principles : fundamental electromagnetic theory and description of light sources -- 3. Review of optical principles : classical optics -- 4. Review of optical interaction properties -- 5. Light-tissue interaction variables -- 6. Light-tissue interaction theory -- 7. Numerical and deterministic methods in light-tissue interaction theory -- 8. Light-tissue interaction mechanisms and applications : photophysical -- 9. Light-tissue interaction mechanisms and applications : photochemical -- 10. Light-tissue interaction mechanisms and applications : photobiological -- 11. Therapeutic applications of light : photophysical -- 12. Therapeutic applications of light : photochemical -- 13. Therapeutic applications of light : photobiological -- 14. Diagnostic methods using light : photophysical -- 15. Diagnostic methods using light : photochemical -- 16. Diagnostic methods using light : photobiological.

ISBN

• 0750309385 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780750309387 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006025589

OCLC

• OCM70874166
• 70874166
• SCSB-5316886

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries