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Biophotonics

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Numerous viable optical spectroscopic methodologies are being implemented in biophotonics. Each spectroscopic discipline is progressively adopting more sophisticated photonics and optical fiber-based systems for delivering probing light to a tissue analysis site, for collecting light emitted from a specimen, and for returning this light to photodetection, recording, and analysis instruments. A key technological advance of spectroscopic methodologies is for rapid, accurate, and noninvasive in vivo detection and diagnosis of various health conditions. Examples of spectroscopic techniques used in biophotonics include fluorescence spectroscopy, fluorescent correlation spectroscopy, elastic scattering spectroscopy, diffuse correlation spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy, coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy, stimulated Raman scattering spectroscopy, photon correlation spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and Brillouin scattering spectroscopy.

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Keiser, G. (2016). Spectroscopic Methodologies. In: Biophotonics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0945-7_9

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