Alfons Hoekstra

Optics of Biological Particles - NATO Science Series II Alfons Hoekstra 2007 edition

Marc Notes: International conference proceedings.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Preface -- Organizational Structure -- Light Scattering from a Cell / Gorden Videen, Dat Ngo -- Modeling of Light Scattering from Inhomogeneous Biological Cells / Andrew K. Dunn -- Angularly Resolved Elastic Scattering from Airborne Particles / Paul H. Kaye, Kevin Aptowicz, Richard K. Chang, Virginia Foot, Gorden Videen -- Bio-aerosol Fluorescence / Yong-Le Pan, Jay D. Eversole, Paul H. Kaye, Virginia Foot, Ronald G. Pinnick, Steven C. Hill, Michael W. Mayo, Jerold R. Bottiger, Alan Huston, Vasanthi Sivaprakasam, Richard K. Chang -- Optical and Morphological Characterization of Selected Phytoplanktonic Communities / Antonio Palucci -- Astro-biological Signatures / T. M. Gledhill, W. B. Sparks, Z. Ulanowski, J. H. Hough, S. DasSarma -- Modeling of Light Scattering by Single Red Blood Cells with the FDTD Method / Jun Q. Lu, R. Scott Brock, Ping Yang, Xin-Hua Hu -- Optics of Erythrocytes / Peter Tarasov, Maxim Yurkin, Pavel Avrorov, Konstantin Semyanov, Alfons Hoekstra, Valeri Maltsev -- Optics of Platelets / Irina Kolesnikova, Sergey Potapov, Peter Tarasov, Konstantin Semyanov, Valeri Maltsev -- Optics of Leucocytes / Konstantin Semyanov, Alexey Zharinov, Peter Tarasov, Maxim Yurkin, Ilya Skribunov, Dirk van Bockstaele, Valeri Maltsev -- Index. Publisher Marketing: The optics of biological particles is of great relevance to detect and characterize biological material, such as bacteria, marine particles, or blood cells. Many remote sensing detectors for biological cells exploit single scattering, depolarization, or fluorescence signals. The growing knowledge on the optics of biological particles is therefore of ever increasing relevance in such diverse fields as microbiology, cytology, biomedicine, biophysics, astrobiology, etc. This book covers the optics of single biological particles, both theory and experiment, with emphasis on Elastic Light Scattering and Fluorescence. It deals with the optics of bacteria (bio-aerosols), marine particles (selected phytoplankton communities) and red and white blood cells.