Table of Contents
Contributors xi
1 Confocal Microscopy Tony Wilson 3
2 Spectral Optical Imaging in Biology and Medicine Kevin Burton Jihoon Jeong Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu Daniel L. Farkas 29
3 Multiphoton Microscopy in Neuroscience Fritjof Helmchen Samuel S.-H. Wang Winfried Denk 73
4 Messenger RNA Imaging in Living Cells for Biomedical Research Dahlene Fusco Edouard Bertrand Robert H. Singer 102
5 Building New Fluorescent Probes Alan S. Waggoner Lauren A. Ernst Byron Ballou 120
6 Imaging Membrane Potential with Voltage-Sensitive Dyes Dejan Vucinic Efstratios Kosmidis Chun X. Falk Lawrence B. Cohen Leslie M. Loew Maja Djurisic Dejan Zecevic 132
7 Biomedical Imaging Using Optical Coherence Tomography James G. Fujimoto Yu Chen Aaron Aguirre 161
8 Two-Photon Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Petra Schwille Katrin Heinze Petra Dittrich Elke Haustein 196
9 Nanoscopy: The Future of Optical Microscopy Stefan W. Hell Andreas Schönle 237
10 Fluorescence Imaging in Medical Diagnostics Stefan Andersson-Engels Katarina Svanberg Sune Svanberg 265
11 Flurescence and Spectroscopic Markers of Cervical Neoplasia Ina Pavlova Rebekah Drezek Sung Chang Dizem Arifler Konstantin Sokolov Calum MacAulay Michele Follen Rebecca Richards-Kortum 306
12 Quantitative Absorption and Scattering Spectra in Thick Tissues Using Broadband Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy Dorota Jakubowski Frederic Bevilacqua Sean Merritt Albert Cerussi Bruce J. Tromberg 330
13 Detection of Brain Activity by Near-Infrared Light Enrico Gratton Vlad Toronov Ursula Wolf Martin Wolf 356
14 In Vivo Optical Imaging of Molecular Function Using Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probes Vasilis Ntziachristos Ralph Weissleder 374
15 Revealing the Subtleties of Disease and the Nuances of the Therapeutic Response with Optical Reporter Genes Christopher H. Contag 397
Index 411