Application of Near Infrared Spectroscopy in Biomedicine

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jue, Thomas (Editor), Masuda, Kazumi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Handbook of Modern Biophysics ; 4
• Subjects: Medicine.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.

In keeping with the style of the Handbook of Modern Biophysics, this fourth volume, Application of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Biomedicine, balances the need for physical science/mathematics formalism with a demand for biomedical perspectives. Each chapter divides the presentation into two major p...

Table of Contents:

• Principles and Instrumentation
• Photon Migration in Tissue
• Photon Migration in NIRS Brain Imaging
• Clinical Application of NIRS
• In-Vivo NIRS and Muscle Oxidative Metabolism
• Intracellular Oxygen Dynamics Observed by NIRS during Skeletal Muscle Contraction
• Muscle Oxygen Saturation Measurements in Diving Mammals and Birds Using NIRS
• Noninvasive NMR and NIRS Measurement of Vascular and Intracellular Oxygenation In Vivo.