Fundamentals And Applications Of Biophotonics In Dentistry

by Anil Kishen
Fundamentals And Applications Of Biophotonics In Dentistry
Author: Anil Kishen
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2006-12-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1908979461
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Biophotonics in dentistry is a rapidly growing area. Unlike other books, this invaluable compendium touches on the fundamental areas in biophotonics. Contributed by world-renowned authors, it provides a basic understanding on a range of topics for individuals of different backgrounds to acquire a minimum knowledge of research and development in biophotonics. The chapters are arranged in two major categories. The first describes the fundamental aspects of photonics, such as photomechanics, biomedical imaging, lasers and laser-tissue interaction, spectroscopy and photodynamic therapy. The second details the applications of biophotonics, with special relevance to dentistry, including dental photobiomechanics, Raman spectroscopy and dental tissue optics./a

Biophotonics

by Gerd Keiser
Biophotonics
Author: Gerd Keiser
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2016-07-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811009457
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This book introduces senior-level and postgraduate students to the principles and applications of biophotonics. It also serves as a valuable reference resource or as a short-course textbook for practicing physicians, clinicians, biomedical researchers, healthcare professionals, and biomedical engineers and technicians dealing with the design, development, and application of photonics components and instrumentation to biophotonics issues. The topics include the fundamentals of optics and photonics, the optical properties of biological tissues, light-tissue interactions, microscopy for visualizing tissue components, spectroscopy for optically analyzing the properties of tissue, and optical biomedical imaging. It also describes tools and techniques such as laser and LED optical sources, photodetectors, optical fibers, bioluminescent probes for labeling cells, optical-based biosensors, surface plasmon resonance, and lab-on-a-chip technologies. Among the applications are optical coherence tomography (OCT), optical imaging modalities, photodynamic therapy (PDT), photobiostimulation or low-level light therapy (LLLT), diverse microscopic and spectroscopic techniques, tissue characterization, laser tissue ablation, optical trapping, and optogenetics. Worked examples further explain the material and how it can be applied to practical designs, and the homework problems help test readers’ understanding of the text.

Lasers in Dentistry

by Patricia M. Freitas
Lasers in Dentistry
Author: Patricia M. Freitas
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2015-02-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1118275039
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Lasers have become an increasingly useful tool in conventional dental practice. Their precision and less invasive quality make them an attractive technology in esthetic and pediatric dentistry, oral medicine, and a range of other dental procedures. Lasers in Dentistry: Guide for Clinical Practice is a comprehensive, yet concise and easy-to-use guide to integrating lasers into conventional clinical practice. The book begins by providing the reader a thorough understanding of how lasers work and their varied effects on oral tissues. Subsequent chapters are organized by procedure type, illustrating common clinical techniques with step-by-step illustrations and case examples. In addition, each chapter provides an overview of the latest research for use in clinical practice. More comprehensive than at atlas yet practical and clinically oriented in its approach, Lasers in Dentistry is an essential tool for practitioners and students looking to broader their skill set in laser dentistry.

Phosphate and Borate Bioactive Glasses

by Akiko Obata
Phosphate and Borate Bioactive Glasses
Author: Akiko Obata
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2022-05-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 183916476X
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Inorganic glasses are successfully used in the biomedical field, in particular degradable glasses have found applications in tissue engineering, bone regeneration and tooth remineralisation. Silicate glasses are the most commonly used ones but phosphate and borate glasses are attracting more and more interest owing to their special properties, differing from those of silicate bio-glasses. Phosphate and borate glasses thus open up potential routes for new therapeutic applications. This book focuses on these emerging materials. Bridging the phosphate and borate glasses communities, this book provides a fundamental treatment of atomic structure and physicochemical properties before highlighting their current and potential future applications. Phosphate and borate glasses not only feature a broader range of glass formation than silicate glasses. Their ability to completely dissolve in water with the solubility varying over orders of magnitude with compositional changes, makes them exciting materials for delivering therapeutic agents into the human body. Biomaterials scientists working in glasses, hard tissue engineering and regenerative medicine will find this a must-have book to own, alongside their more traditional silicate glass tomes.

Guided Wave Optics and Photonic Devices

by Shyamal Bhadra
Guided Wave Optics and Photonic Devices
Author: Shyamal Bhadra
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 567
Release: 2017-12-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1351832441
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Guided Wave Optics and Photonic Devices introduces readers to a broad cross-section of topics in this area, from the basics of guided wave optics and nonlinear optics to biophotonics. The book is inspired by and expands on lectures delivered by distinguished speakers at a three-week school on guided wave optics and devices organized at the CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute in Kolkata in 2011. An Introduction to Guided Wave Optics and Photonic Devices: Principles, Applications, and Future Directions The book discusses the concept of modes in a guided medium from first principles, emphasizing the importance of dispersion properties in optical fibers. It describes fabrication and characterization techniques of rare-earth-doped optical fibers for amplifiers and lasers, with an eye to future applications. Avoiding complex mathematical formalism, it also presents the basic theory and operational principles of fiber amplifiers and lasers. The book examines techniques for writing fiber Bragg gratings, which are of particular interest for smart sensing applications. A chapter focuses on the fundamental principles of Fourier optics and its implementation in guided wave optics. In addition, the book explains the critical phenomena of soliton dynamics and supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber, including its fabrication process and characteristics. It also looks at plasmonics in guided media and nonlinearity in stratified media—both key areas for future research. The last chapter explores the importance of lasers in biophotonic applications. Written by experts engaged in teaching, research, and development in optics and photonics, this reference brings together fundamentals and recent advances in one volume. It offers a valuable overview of the field for students and researchers alike and identifies directions for future research in guided wave and photonic device technology.

Handbook of Tissue Optical Clearing

by Valery V. Tuchin
Handbook of Tissue Optical Clearing
Author: Valery V. Tuchin
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 682
Release: 2022-02-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000466302
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Biomedical photonics is currently one of the fastest growing fields, connecting research in physics, optics, and electrical engineering coupled with medical and biological applications. It allows for the structural and functional analysis of tissues and cells with resolution and contrast unattainable by any other methods. However, the major challenges of many biophotonics techniques are associated with the need to enhance imaging resolution even further to the sub-cellular level as well as translate them for in vivo studies. The tissue optical clearing method uses immersion of tissues into optical clearing agents (OCAs) that reduces the scattering of tissue and makes tissue more transparent and this method has been successfully used ever since. This book is a self-contained introduction to tissue optical clearing, including the basic principles and in vitro biological applications, from in vitro to in vivo tissue optical clearing methods, and combination of tissue optical clearing and various optical imaging for diagnosis. The chapters cover a wide range of issues related to the field of tissue optical clearing: mechanisms of tissue optical clearing in vitro and in vivo; traditional and innovative optical clearing agents; recent achievements in optical clearing of different tissues (including pathological tissues) and blood for optical imaging diagnosis and therapy. This book provides a comprehensive account of the latest research and possibilities of utilising optical clearing as an instrument for improving the diagnostic effectiveness of modern optical diagnostic methods. The book is addressed to biophysicist researchers, graduate students and postdocs of biomedical specialties, as well as biomedical engineers and physicians interested in the development and application of optical methods in medicine. Key features: The first collective reference to collate all known knowledge on this topic Edited by experts in the field with chapter contributions from subject area specialists Brings together the two main approaches in immersion optical clearing into one cohesive book

Laser Physics and Technology

by Pradeep Kumar Gupta
Laser Physics and Technology
Author: Pradeep Kumar Gupta
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2014-11-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 8132220005
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The book, ‘Laser Physics and Technology’, addresses fundamentals of laser physics, representative laser systems and techniques, and some important applications of lasers. The present volume is a collection of articles based on some of the lectures delivered at the School on ‘Laser Physics and Technology’ organized at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology during March, 12-30, 2012. The objective of the School was to provide an in-depth knowledge of the important aspects of laser physics and technology to doctoral students and young researchers and motivate them for further work in this area. In keeping with this objective, the fourteen chapters, written by leading Indian experts, based on the lectures delivered by them at the School, provide along with class room type coverage of the fundamentals of the field, a brief review of the current status of the field. The book will be useful for doctoral students and young scientists who are embarking on a research in this area as well as to professionals who would be interested in knowing the current state of the field particularly in Indian context.

Handbook of Photomedicine

by Michael R. Hamblin
Handbook of Photomedicine
Author: Michael R. Hamblin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 854
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1439884706
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Providing the most comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of this exciting biomedical field, Handbook of Photomedicine gathers together a large team of international experts to give you a complete account of the application of light in healthcare and medical science. The book progresses logically from the history and fundamentals of photomedicine to di

Optical Detection of Cancer

by Arlen D. Meyers
Optical Detection of Cancer
Author: Arlen D. Meyers
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2012
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9814295418
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Ch. 1. The optical detection of cancer: an introduction / Toby Steele and Arlen Meyers -- ch. 2. Optical coherence tomography in oral cancer / Shahareh Sabet and Petra Wilder-Smith -- ch. 3. Optical coherence tomography in laryngeal cancer / Marcel Kraft and Christoph Arens -- ch. 4. Fluorescence imaging of the upper aerodigestive tract / Christian Stephan Betz, Andreas Leunig and Christoph Arens -- ch. 5. Photodynamic diagnosis and photodynamic therapy techniques / Zheng Huang -- ch. 6. OCT detection of lung cancer / S. Murgu and M. Brenner -- ch. 7. Diffuse optical spectroscopy and imaging in breast cancer / Albert E. Cerussi and Bruce J. Tromberg -- ch. 8. OCT for skin cancer / Gordon McKenzie and Adam Meekings