Release Date: 26 March, 2003
Hardcover
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This comprehensive handbook will serve as a reference for those involved in the research, teaching, learning, and practice of medical technologies. Chapters are grouped in sections on photonics and tissue optics, photonic devices, photonic detection and imaging techniques, biomedical diagnostics, interventional and treatment techniques, and advanced biophotonics for genomics, proteomics, and medicine. An appendix compiles information on spectroscopic data of biologically and medically relevant species for some 1,000 compounds and systems. The editor is director of the Center for Advanced Biomedical Photonics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Description
A wide variety of biomedical photonic technologies have been developed recently for clinical monitoring of early disease states; molecular diagnostics and imaging of physiological parameters; molecular and genetic biomarkers; and detection of the presence of pathological organisms or biochemical species of clinical importance. However, available information on this rapidly growing field is fragmented among a variety of journals and specialized books.Now researchers and medical practitioners have an authoritative and comprehensive source for the latest research and applications in biomedical photonics. Over 150 leading scientists, engineers, and physicians discuss state-of-the-art instrumentation, methods, and protocols in the Biomedical Photonics Handbook. Editor-in-Chief Tuan Vo-Dinh and an advisory board of distinguished scientists and medical experts ensure that each of the 65 chapters represents the latest and most accurate information currently available.
Book Info
Handbook covers a wide variety of noninvasive optical techniques for diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of disease. Provides introductory material and an overview of the topic in each chapter. A reference source for a broad audience involved in the research, teaching, learning, and practice of medical technologies. DLC: Optoelectronic devices--Handbooks, manuals, etc. Rating 4.0
Intelligent, Useful HandbookBiomedical applications of light are expanding dynamically. This handbook does a good job of organizing a mass of information on dozens of cutting-edge technologies. The articles by leading experts are aimed at professionals but do not, in most cases, require specialized knowledge to understand. The clear graphics appropriately support the text, while the chapter bibliographies are extensive.
So this handbook can be recommended to any scientist, medical doctor, engineer, or graduate student in this or related fields.
However, this book suffers from certain flaws that it shares with many other English-language books in this field. Scientists in Russia and other East European countries are very competitive in certain areas of biomedical photonics. They lead the world in the centrally important field of low-intensity laser therapy (LILT). Yet the book's discussion of biophotonics and its almost totally monoglot bibliographies do not come close to incorporating their findings.
Even the sole article on LILT states that it will not discuss whole body responses to this therapy. Why not? They are very relevant in a handbook of this sort.
What's more, this article omits any mention of Biophotonic Therapy (Photoluminescence, Quantum Hemotherapy), the treatment of the blood with a low-intensity laser via an intravenous waveguide or, in extracorporeal mode, with UV and visible light. The reader would never learn from this handbook that thousands of practitioners throughout the world use Biophotonic Therapy every day for a wide range of indications. The mechanisms of BT are well characterized, and more than 400 scientific articles and a dozen books are devoted to BT's clinical track record.
These are unfortunate omissions in an otherwise admirable handbook. |
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