This book provides students, teachers, researchers and clinicians with a strong and established source of information on advanced optical technologies that show real promise of being translated to clinical use.
Contributors. Preface. 1 Introduction to Optical Imaging in Clinical
Medicine ( Nicusor Iftimia, Daniel X. Hammer, and William R. Brugge). 2
Traditional Imaging Modalities in Clinical Medicine ( Ileana Iftimia and
Herbert Mower). 3 Current Imaging Approaches and Further Imaging Needs in
Clinical Medicine: A Clinician's Perspective ( Gadi Wollstein and Joel S.
Schuman, Cetin Karaca, Sevdenur Cizginer, and William R. Brugge, Ik-Kyung
Jang and Jin-Man Cho, Peter K. Dempsey). 4 Advances in Retinal Imaging (
Daniel X. Hammer). 5 Confocal Microscopy of Skin Cancers ( Juliana
Casagrande Tavoloni Braga, Itay Klaz, Alon Scope, Daniel Gareau, Milind
Rajadhyaksha, and Ashfaq A. Marghoob). 6 High-Resolution Optical Coherence
Tomography Imaging in Gastroenterology ( Melissa J. Suter, Brett E. Bouma,
and Guillermo J. Tearney). 7 High-Resolution Confocal Endomicroscopy for
Gastrointestinal Cancer Detection ( Jonathan T. C. Liu, Jonathan W. Hardy,
and Christopher H. Contag). 8 High-Resolution Optical Imaging in
Interventional Cardiology ( Thomas J. Kiernan, Bryan P. Yan, Kyoichi Mizuno,
and Ik-Kyung Jang). 9 Fluorescence Lifetime Spectroscopy in Cardio and
Neuroimaging ( Laura Marcu, Javier A. Jo, and Pramod Butte). 10 Advanced
Optical Methods for Functional Brain Imaging: Time-Domain Functional
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy ( Alessandro Torricelli, Davide Contini, Lorenzo
Spinelli, Matteo Caffini, Antonio Pifferi, and Rinaldo Cubeddu). 11 Advances
in Optical Mammography ( Xavier Intes and Fred S. Azar). 12 Photoacoustic
Tomography ( Huabei Jiang and Zhen Yuan). 13 Optical Imaging and Measurement
of Angiogenesis ( Brian S. Sorg). 14 High-Resolution Phase-Contrast Optical
Coherence Tomography for Functional Biomedical Imaging ( Taner Akkin and
Digant P. Dave). 15 Polarization Imaging ( Mircea Mujat). 16 Nanotechnology
Approaches to Contrast Enhancement in Optical Imaging and Disease-Targeted
Therapy ( Nicusor Iftimia, Lara Milane, Amy Oldenburg, and Mansoor Amiji).
17 Molecular Probes for Optical Contrast Enhancement of Gastrointestinal
Cancers ( Jonathan W. Hardy, Anson W. Lowe, Christopher H. Contag, and
Jonathan T. C. Liu). Index.
Nicusor Iftimia is leader of the Advanced Microscopy and Image Guided Interventions Group at Physical Sciences, Inc. in Andover, Massachusetts. He has been awarded several NIH and DoD grants to conduct cutting-edge research in biomedical optics imaging for cancer diagnosis and therapy guidance. He has published over forty peer-reviewed journal papers, is the author of several book chapters, and a co-inventor of more than ten patents. William R. Brugge is Director of the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Brugge pioneered the use of endoscopic ultrasound imaging'in the diagnosis and staging of gastrointestinal malignancies, particularly early malignancies of the pancreas. Daniel X. Hammer is leader of the Biomedical Imaging Group at Physical Sciences, Inc. in Andover, Massachusetts. He specializes in the development of innovative biomedical optical instruments, conducting international award-winning research in the area of ophthalmology and adaptive optics. He has published more than forty peer-reviewed journal papers and is a co-inventor of more than ten patents.
