The Optical Clearing Method A New Tool for Clinical Practice and Biomedical Engineering /

• Main Authors: Oliveira, Luís Manuel Couto (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Tuchin, Valery Victorovich (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Physics,
• Subjects: Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Biomedical engineering.; Microscopy.; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering.; Biological Microscopy.; Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology.

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 surgeo...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter1. Tissue Optics
• Chapter2. Controlling the optical properties of biological materials
• Chapter3. Typical optical clearing agents
• Chapter4. Major optical clearing mechanisms
• Chapter5. Measurements during optical clearing
• Chapter6. Data that can be acquired from optical clearing studies
• Chapter7. Optical clearing and tissue imaging
• Chapter8. Other applications of OCAs
• Chapter9. Future perspectives of the optical clearing method.