Nanobiophotonics / edited by Gabriel Popescu.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biology of the cancer cell / Marina Marjanovic and Krishnarao Tangella -- Review of electromagnetic fields / Gabriel Popescu -- Introduction to nanophotonics / Logan Liu -- Tissue pathology : a clinical perspective / Krishnarao Tangella and Marina Marjanovic -- Light scattering in inhomogeneous media / Gabriel Popescu -- Theory of second-harmonic generation / Raghu Ambekar Ramachandra Rao and Kimani C. Toussaint, Jr. -- Vision restoration in the nanobiophotonic era / S. Sayegh -- Optical low-coherence interferometric techniques for applications in nanomedicine / Utkarsh Sharma and Stephen A. Boppart -- Plasmonics and metmaterials / Kin Hung Fung and Nicholas X. Fang -- Infrared spectroscopic imaging : an integrative approach to pathology / Michael J. Walsh and Rohit Bhargava -- Scattering, absorbing, and modulating nanoprobes for coherence imaging / Renu John and Stephen A. Boppart -- Second-harmonic generation imaging of collagen-based systems / Monal R. Mehta, Raghu Ambekar Ramachandra Rao, and Kimani C. Toussaint, Jr. -- Plasmonics : toward a new paradigm for light manipulation at the nanoscale / Maxim Sukharev -- Plasmon resonance energy transfer nanospectroscopy / Logan Liu -- Erthrocyte nanoscale flickering : a marker for disease / Catherine A. Best -- Superresolution far-field fluorescence microscopy / Manuel F. Juette, Travis J. Gould, and Joerg Bewersdorf.

"How can we realize super resolution medical imaging using nanotechnology and optical technology. This introductory tutorial provides readers sufficient knowledge to understand this new branch of multidisciplinary study, nanobiophotonics, and further allow them to review most resent research results in the biomedical application"--Provided by publisher.