Biomedical Photonic Technologies

Zhenxi Zhang is Professor in the School of Life Science and Technology at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. After his PhD from University of Science and Technology of China, he joined Xi'an Jiaotong University. His research interests include biomedical photonics imaging and spectral analysis techniques. He has published more than 200 scientific papers. He received two times the provincial and ministerial level scientific and technological progress awards and the Outstanding Teacher Award of Baogang Education Foundation.

Jiang Shudong is Associate Professor in the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, USA. She received her PhD in optoelectronics from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Her research interests include optical spectroscopy and imaging systems for biomedical applications. She has published more than 70 journal articles.

Buhong Li is a professor of Biomedical Photonics and the Executive Deputy Dean of Graduate School, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in Optical Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2003. He was the New Century Excellent Talents in Ministry of Education of China. He was a visiting scientist in the Ontario Cancer Institute and University of Toronto from September 2005 to September 2007. He then worked as a senior visiting fellow in Institute of Physics of Humboldt University of Berlin from April 2014 to August 2014. His research focuses on optical technologies and instrumentations for monitoring photodynamic therapy dosimetry, in particular, the spatiotemporal detection of singlet oxygen luminescence during photosensitization. He has authored or coauthored more than 120 international journal and invited conference papers. He is the associate editor of Nano Biomedicine and Engineering, and the editorial member of Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences.

Preface
1 Advanced Wide-Field Fluorescent Microscopy for Biomedicine
2 Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)
3 Optical Coherence Tomography Structural and Functional Imaging
4 Coherent Raman Scattering Microscopy and Biomedical Applications
5 Fluorescence Imaging-Guide Surgery
6 Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy
7 Optogenetics
8 Optical Theranostics Based on Gold Nanoparticles
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