Biomedical Applications of Biophysics

by Thomas Jue (Editor)

Overview

In keeping with goal and style of the Handbook in Modern Biophysics series, the proposed book will maintain a chapter structure that contains two parts: concepts and biological application. The book also integrates all the chapters into a smooth, continuous discourse. The first and second chapters establish the mathematical methods and theoretical framework underpinning the different topics in the rest if the book. Other chapters will use the theoretical framework as a basis to discuss optical and NMR approaches. Each chapter will contain innovative didactic elements that facilitate teaching, self-study, and research preparation (key points, summary, exercise, references).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781603272322
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	09/02/2010
Series:	Handbook of Modern Biophysics , #3
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	237
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Thomas Jue is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the University of California Davis. He is an internationally recognized expert in develop-ing and applying magnetic resonance techniques to study animal as well as human physi-ology in vivo and has published extensively in the field of magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging, near-infrared spectroscopy, bioenergetics, cardiovascular regu-lation, exercise, and marine biology. As the Chair of the Biophysics Graduate Group Program at University of California Davis, he launched an initiative to establish a biophysics book series that will balance the physical-science/mathematics formalism with the biomedical perspective in order to develop an attractive education curriculum at the interface of physical science, engineering, mathematics, biology, and medicine. The Handbook of Modern Biophysics represents part of that curriculum development effort.

Table of Contents

Protein Structure Prediction.- Molecular Modeling of Biomembranes: A How-to Approach.- to Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.- Theory and Applications of Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy.- FRET and Its Biological Application as a Molecular Ruler.- to Modern Techniques in Mass Spectrometry.- Transmission Electron Microscopy and Computer-Aided Image Processing for 3D Structural Analysis of Macromolecules.- Raman Spectroscopy of Living Cells.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

“Introduces the fundamental physics concepts underlying described procedures, describes the instrumentation or technique, and illustrates the application in studying current biomedical problems. This book brings current biophysics topics into focus. … With the addition of problem sets, guides to further study and references, the interested reader can continue to independently explore the ideas presented. … will be a useful comparison for moderately advanced users wishing to extend their skills and can be recommended as valuable textbook for undergraduate as well as graduate students.” (Mária Karmažínová, General Physiology and Biochemistry, May, 2011)

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