Ultrashort Laser Pulses In Biology And Medicine (biological And Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering)

Sources of ultrashort laser pulses are nowadays commercially available and have entered many areas of research and development. This book gives an overview of biological and medical applications of these laser pulses. The briefness of these laser pulses permits the tracing of the fastest processes in photo-active bio-systems, which is one focus of the book. The other focus is applications that rely on the high peak intensity of ultrashort laser pulses. Examples covered span non-linear imaging techniques, optical tomography, and laser surgery. Cover ......Page 1 Contents ......Page 8 Part I: Ultrafast Lasers in Medicine ......Page 17 1. Ultrahigh-Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography Using Femtosecond Lasers ......Page 18 2. Two-Photon Laser Scanning Microscopy......Page 43 3. Femtosecond Lasers in Ophthalmology: Surgery and Imaging......Page 66 Part II: Ultrafast Lasers in Biology......Page 87 4. Ultrafast Peptide and Protein Dynamics by Vibrational Spectroscopy......Page 88 5. Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting......Page 106 6. Primary Photosynthetic Energy Conversion in Bacterial Reaction Centers......Page 127 7. Ultrafast Primary Reactions in the Photosystems of Oxygen-Evolving Organisms......Page 151 8. Primary Photochemistry in the Photoactive Yellow Protein: The Prototype Xanthopsin......Page 175 9. Structure Based Kinetics by Time-Resolved X-ray Crystallography......Page 210 10. Primary Reactions in Retinal Proteins......Page 251 11. Ultrashort Laser Pulses in Single Molecule Spectroscopy......Page 286 Index ......Page 317 Learn about the many biological and medical applications of ultrashort laser pulses. The authors highlight and explain how the briefness of these laser pulses permits the tracing of even the fastest processes in photo-active bio-systems. They also present a variety of applications that rely on the high peak intensity of ultrashort laser pulses.