castor optics inc.

Caroline Boudoux, co-founder of Castor Optics, has released her first book, Fundamentals of Biomedical Optics! This comprehensive textbook covers a variety of topics, including elementary optics, light-tissue interactions, and imaging system design and applications. It can serve as the primary resource for upper-level undergraduate or introductory graduate courses on biomedical optics, and also as a reference for researchers in the field. 

Book Summary
Part 1: Tools of Optics

• Geometrical Optics

• Wave Optics

• Interference and Diffraction

• Coherence

Part 2: Light-Tissue Interactions

• Absorption and Spectroscopy

• Radiative Relaxation and Fluorescence

• Non-Radiative Relaxation

• Scattering

• Light Transport in Tissue

Part 3: Imaging Systems

• Microscopy

• Confocal Microscopy

• Nonlinear Microscopy

• Optical Coherence Tomography