Abstract
Biophotonics or biomedical optics has become an indispensable tool for basic life sciences research and for biomedical diagnosis, therapy, monitoring, imaging, and surgery. This chapter first describes what biophotonics is and what its benefits and applications are. Then some basic concepts of light and of light-tissue interactions are described, including what specific lightwave windows are needed to carry out biophotonic processes. The final section gives a brief tutorial of biological cell and molecular structures, cellular and molecular functions, and the vocabulary used to describe these structures and functions. This topic is essential for understanding the biophotonic tools and light-tissue interaction processes described in this book.
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Keiser, G. (2022). Overview of Biophotonics. In: Biophotonics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3482-7_1
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