Contributors; 1. Confocal Microscopy; 2. Spectral Optical Imaging in Biology and Medicine; 3. Multiphoton Microscopy in Neuroscience; 4. Messenger RNA Imaging in Living Cells for Biomedical Research; 5. Building New Fluorescent Probes; 6. Imaging Membrane Potential with Voltage-Sensitive Dyes; 7. Biomedical Imaging Using Optical Coherence Tomography; 8. Two-Photon Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy; 9. Nanoscopy: The Future of Optical Microscopy; 10. Fluorescence Imaging in Medical Diagnostics; 11. Fluorescence and Spectroscopic Markers of Cervical Neoplasia.
Summary
Biomedical optical imaging is a rapidly emerging research area with widespread fundamental research and clinical applications. This book gives an overview of biomedical optical imaging with contributions from leading international research groups who have pioneered many of these techniques and applications. A unique research field spanning the microscopic to the macroscopic, biomedical optical imaging allows both structural and functional imaging. Techniques such as confocal and multiphoton microscopy provide cellular level resolution imaging in biological systems. The integration of this tech.
