Handbook of Optical Biomedical Diagnostics (SPIE Press Monograph Vol. PM107)

More than 50 contributing authors representing the leading research groups from around the world provide the fundamentals, current research results, and new and existing applications for biomedical diagnostics. This comprehensive text will be especially useful to students, physicians, and biomedical engineers.

Contents

- Preface

- Introduction

- Introduction to Light Scattering by Biological Objects

- Optics of Blood

- Propagation of Pulses and Photon Density Waves in Turbid Media

- Coherence Phenomena and Statistical Properties of Multiply Scattered Light

- Tissue Phantoms

- Time-Resolved Imaging in Diffusive Media

- Frequency-Domain Techniques for Tissue Spectroscopy and Imaging

- Monitoring of Brain Activity with Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

- Signal Quantification and Localization in Tissue Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

- Time-Resolved Detection of Optoacoustic Profiles for Measurement of Optical Energy Distribution in Tissues

- Light Backscattering Diagnostics of RBC Aggregation in Whole Blood Samples

- Light Scattering Spectroscopy of Epithelial Tissues: Principles and Applications

- Reflectance and Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Human Skin In Vivo

- Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy of Human Skin In Vivo

- Fluorescence Technologies in Biomedical Diagnostics

- Speckle and Doppler Methods of Blood and Lymph Flow Monitoring

- Real-Time Imaging of Microstructure and Blood Flows Using Optical Coherence Tomography

- Speckle Technologies for Monitoring and Imaging of Tissues and Tissue-Like Phantoms

- Optical Assessment of Tissue Mechanics