Optics in Instruments (ePub)

Optics is a science which covers a very large domain and is
experiencing indisputable growth. It has enabled the development of
a considerable number of instruments, the optical component or
methodology of which is often the essential part of portent
systems. This book sets out show how optical physical phenomena
such as lasers - the basis of instruments of measurement
- are involved in the fields of biology and medicine.

Optics in Instruments: Applications in Biology and Medicine
details instruments and measurement systems using optical methods
in the visible and near-infrared, as well as their applications in
biology and medicine, through looking at confocal laser scanning
microscopy, the basis of instruments performing in biological and
medical analysis today, and flow cytometry, an instrument which
measures at high speed the parameters of a cell passing in front of
one or more laser beams. The authors also discuss optical coherence
tomography (OCT), which is an optical imaging technique using
non-contact infrared light, the therapeutic applications of lasers,
where they are used for analysis and care, and the major
contributions of plasmon propagation in the field of life sciences
through instrumental developments, focusing on propagating surface
plasmons (PSP) and localized plasmons (LP).

Contents:

1. Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy, Thomas Olivier and
Baptiste Moine.

2. Flow Cytometry (FCM) Measurement of Cells in Suspension, Odile
Sabido.

3. Optical Coherence Tomography, Claude Boccara and Arnaud
Dubois.

4. Therapeutic Applications of Lasers, Geneviève Bourg-Heckly
and Serge Mordon.

5. Plasmonics, Emmanuel Fort.

About the Authors

Jean-Pierre Goure is Emeritus Professor of optics at Jean Monnet
University in Saint-Etienne, France, and was previously director of
the UMR 5516 laboratory linked with CNRS. He is the author of more
than 100 publications in various fields, such as spectroscopy,
instrumentation, sensors, optical fiber and optical communications.
He was also previously deputy director in engineering science at
CNRS and a member of several scientific associations such as the
French Optical Society and the European Optical Society.