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.

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 (IleanaIftimia and Herbert Mower).3 Current Imaging Approaches and Further Imaging Needs inClinical Medicine: A Clinician's Perspective (GadiWollstein and Joel S. Schuman, Cetin Karaca, Sevdenur Cizginer, andWilliam 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 CasagrandeTavoloni Braga, Itay Klaz, Alon Scope, Daniel Gareau, MilindRajadhyaksha, and Ashfaq A. Marghoob).6 High-Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging inGastroenterology (Melissa J. Suter, Brett E. Bouma, andGuillermo J. Tearney).7 High-Resolution Confocal Endomicroscopy for GastrointestinalCancer Detection (Jonathan T. C. Liu, Jonathan W. Hardy, andChristopher H. Contag).8 High-Resolution Optical Imaging in Interventional Cardiology(Thomas J. Kiernan, Bryan P. Yan, Kyoichi Mizuno, and Ik-KyungJang).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 (AlessandroTorricelli, Davide Contini, Lorenzo Spinelli, Matteo CaffiniAntonio Pifferi, and Rinaldo Cubeddu).11 Advances in Optical Mammography (Xavier Intes and Fred S.Azar).12 Photoacoustic Tomography (Huabei Jiang and ZhenYuan).13 Optical Imaging and Measurement of Angiogenesis (Brian S.Sorg).14 High-Resolution Phase-Contrast Optical Coherence Tomographyfor Functional Biomedical Imaging (Taner Akkin and Digant P.Davé).15 Polarization Imaging (Mircea Mujat).16 Nanotechnology Approaches to Contrast Enhancement in OpticalImaging and Disease-Targeted Therapy (Nicusor Iftimia, LaraMilane, Amy Oldenburg, and Mansoor Amiji).17 Molecular Probes for Optical Contrast Enhancement ofGastrointestinal Cancers (Jonathan W. Hardy, Anson W. LoweChristopher H. Contag, and Jonathan T. C. Liu).Index.