The Optical Clearing Method

• Author(s): Luís Manuel Couto Oliveira, Valery Victorovich Tuchin

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2019-11-27
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• Publisher: Springer Nature

This book describes the Optical Immersion Clearing method and its application to acquire information with importance for clinical practice and various fields of biomedical engineering. The method has proved to be a reliable means of increasing tissue transparency, allowing the investigator or surgeon to reach deeper tissue layers for improved imaging and laser surgery. This result is obtained by partial replacement of tissue water with an active optical clearing agent (OCA) that has a higher refractive index and is a better match for the refractive index of other tissue components. Natural tissue scattering is thereby reduced. An exponential increase in research using this method has occurre...

Advanced Optical Methods for Brain Imaging

• Author(s): Fu-Jen Kao, Gerd Keiser, Ankur Gogoi

• Categories: Technology & Engineering

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2018-05-14
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• Publisher: Springer

This book highlights the rapidly developing field of advanced optical methods for structural and functional brain imaging. As is known, the brain is the most poorly understood organ of a living body. It is indeed the most complex structure in the known universe and, thus, mapping of the brain has become one of the most exciting frontlines of contemporary research. Starting from the fundamentals of the brain, neurons and synapses, this book presents a streamlined and focused coverage of the core principles, theoretical and experimental approaches, and state-of-the-art applications of most of the currently used imaging methods in brain research. It presents contributions from international lea...

The Gregory Breit Centennial Symposium

• Author(s): Vernon W Hughes, Francesco Iachello, Dimitri Kusnezov

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2001-03-09
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• Publisher: World Scientific

This book contains the proceedings of the Gregory Breit Centennial Symposium. The legacy of Breit to atomic, nuclear and particle physics is discussed vis-à-vis modern developments in these fields. Among other subjects, the present status of the Breit interaction in atomic physics and of the nucleon-nucleon interaction are reviewed. The second part of the book contains a more in-depth presentation of the status of modern nuclear physics, from relativistic heavy ion physics to nuclear structure physics and nuclear astrophysics. The recently confirmed discovery of supersymmetry in nuclei is also discussed.

Surface Electromyography

• Author(s): Roberto Merletti, Dario Farina

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2016-05-02
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• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Reflects on developments in noninvasive electromyography, and includes advances and applications in signal detection, processing and interpretation Addresses EMG imaging technology together with the issue of decomposition of surface EMG Includes advanced single and multi-channel techniques for information extraction from surface EMG signals Presents the analysis and information extraction of surface EMG at various scales, from motor units to the concept of muscle synergies.

Nanoscience

• Author(s): P O'Brien, P J Thomas

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2013-12-02
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• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry

This volume will present critical and comphrehensive reviews examining the latest research and developments in nanoscience in accessible articles. Quantum dot synthesis, soft lithography and graphene will feature in the debut volume, along with perspectives on research in China and India.