Fundamentals of Biomedical Optics by Caroline Boudoux
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
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Geometrical Optics
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Wave Optics
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Interference and Diffraction
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Coherence
Part 2: Light-Tissue Interactions
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Absorption and Spectroscopy
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Radiative Relaxation and Fluorescence
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Non-Radiative Relaxation
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Scattering
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Light Transport in Tissue
Part 3: Imaging Systems
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Microscopy
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Confocal Microscopy
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Nonlinear Microscopy
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Optical Coherence Tomography