Optics of Biological Particles

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hoekstra, Alfons (Editor), Maltsev, Valeri (Editor), Videen, Gorden (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: NATO Science Series, 238
• Subjects: Physics.; Microbiology.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on “Optics of Biological Particles” met in Novosibirsk, Russia 3 – 6 October, 2005. The focus of the meeting was the potential of light scattering in the detection and characterization of biological particles, on novel detection systems using polarized light scatt...

Table of Contents:

• LIGHT SCATTERING FROM A CELL
• MODELING OF LIGHT SCATTERING FROM INHOMOGENEOUS BIOLOGICAL CELLS
• ANGULARLY RESOLVED ELASTIC SCATTERING FROM AIRBORNE PARTICLES
• BIO-AEROSOL FLUORESCENCE
• OPTICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SELECTED PHYTOPLANKTONIC COMMUNITIES
• ASTRO-BIOLOGICAL SIGNATURES
• MODELING OF LIGHT SCATTERING BY SINGLE RED BLOOD CELLS WITH THE FDTD METHOD
• OPTICS OF ERYTHROCYTES
• OPTICS OF PLATELETS
• OPTICS OF LEUCOCYTES.