Title :
Applications of photonics to the life sciences and medicine
Author :
Matthews, Dennis L.
Author_Institution :
California Univ., Davis, CA, USA
Abstract :
Science and technology projects of the NSF Center for Biophotonics are enumerated, such as saturated structured illumination microscopes to achieve up to 5× diffraction-limited resolution imaging, X-ray diffraction microscopy for imaging single biomolecules, phytochromes engineered for tailored wavelength optical labels, in vivo bioluminescence imaging of mouse models to develop protease assays, Raman spectroscopy and coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopic imaging assays for single molecule detection, laser-activated shaped memory polymer intracerebral catheter tools, PDT applied to epileptogenesis site ablation, hyperspectral imaging and diagnosis of cancer at the single cellular level, as well as numerous other applications or photonics technologies.
Keywords :
Raman spectroscopy; X-ray diffraction; biological techniques; bioluminescence; biomedical optical imaging; cancer; catheters; coherent antiStokes Raman scattering; image resolution; laser ablation; laser applications in medicine; molecular biophysics; optical microscopes; photodynamic therapy; PDT; Raman spectroscopy; X-ray diffraction microscopy; bioluminescence imaging; biomolecules; biophotonics; cancer diagnosis; coherent antiStokes Raman spectroscopic imaging assays; diffraction-limited resolution imaging; epileptogenesis site ablation; hyperspectral imaging; laser-activated shaped memory polymer intracerebral catheter tools; mouse models; phytochromes; protease assays; saturated structured illumination microscopes; Hyperspectral imaging; Optical diffraction; Optical imaging; Optical microscopy; Optical polymers; Photonics; Raman scattering; Spectroscopy; X-ray diffraction; X-ray lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8557-8
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363295
