Neurophotonics and Biomedical Spectroscopy

Part 1: Topics in Optical Spectroscopy Biopsy
1. Origin of tissue optical properties
2. Optical methods for tissue diagnosis and treatment
3. Methods for in vivo assessment of physiological state of tissue
4. Excitation, absorption, scattering fluorescence spectroscopy
5. Resonance Raman spectroscopy
6. Inelastic light scattering spectroscopy and imaging
7. Stimulated Raman gain spectroscopy and imaging—NIR optical windows in 700 nm to 2500 nm
8. Coherent and non-contact photo-acoustic imaging
9. Polarization and diffusive reflectance spectral imaging time resolved spectroscopy single and multi-photon excitation and imaging
10. Mid infrared diagnostic methods
11. Nano particle tagging and contrast agents optical metabolomics Demos, Gansean
12. Supercontinuum for medical and biological applications
13. Stokes shift spectroscopy

Part 2: Topics in Optics in Brain
14. Alzheimer’s Disease Optical Imaging in vascular impairment
15. Hemodynamics by NIR in Brain, and Overview View summary of field
16. Blood Barrier in mice using two photon and ultrasound
17. Overview of Infrared neural stimulation
18. 2Photon excitation in brain
19. Overview NIR correlation spectroscopy in brain
20. Overview of Optical Coherent Tomography in neuron tree
21. IR stimulation in spinal nerves
22. Ca+2 channels in brain by multiphotons
23. Ca2+ flow in brain by multiphotons
24. Overview Ca2+ indicators by 2PEF
25. Control Biosystems using optogentics
26. Optogenetic circuit mapping with traditional whole cell patch clamp to determine synaptic connectivity between identified neurons in mouse models of psychiatric disease
27. Special Proteins Red fluorescent proteins RFP in brain probing (Dr. Robert Campbell)
28. OCT neural activity
29. Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy in Brain Research
30. Imaging the neurovascular coupling system with lami

Neurophotonics and Biomedical Spectroscopy addresses the novel state-of-the-art work in non-invasive optical spectroscopic methods that detect the onset and progression of diseases and other conditions, including pre-malignancy, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, tissue and cell response to therapeutic intervention, unintended injury and laser energy deposition. The book then highlights research in neurophotonics that investigates single and multi-photon excitation optical signatures of normal/diseased nerve tissues and in the brain, providing a better understanding of the underlying biochemical and structural changes of tissues and cells that are responsible for the observed spectroscopic signatures.

Topics cover a wide array of well-established UV, visible, NIR and IR optical and spectroscopic techniques and novel approaches to diagnose tissue changes, including: label free in vivo and ex vivo fluorescence spectroscopy, Stoke shift spectroscopy, spectral imaging, Resonance Raman spectroscopy, multiphoton two Photon excitation, and more.

• Provides an overview of the spectroscopic properties of tissue and tissue-light interaction, describing techniques to exploit these properties in imaging
• Explores the potential and significance of molecule-specific imaging and its capacity to reveal vital new information on nanoscale structures
• Offers a concise overview of different spectroscopic methods and their potential benefits for solving diagnostic and therapeutic problems

Researchers in nanomedicine, nanophotonics and optics, biomedical optics, neuroscientists, molecular biologists, clinical neurologists, and optical physics