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Laser Tomography

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Comparative analysis of the modern optical technologies based on the use of laser light for tissue structure diagnostics and imaging is given in this chapter. A great interest to the development and medical applications of optical imaging methods that has appeared in the last two decades, was stimulated by such undoubted advantages of these techniques as safety, potentiality to obtain high spatial resolution on the cellular and even subcellular level in combination with relatively large penetration depths of the probe laser light in the visible and near-infrared regions, possibility to provide the multifunctional diagnostics and imaging of tissues and organs, etc. It is necessary to note that various aspects of laser diagnostics and imaging in biology and medicine were discussed in a series of special issues and books of selected papers [1– 6]. Here we will discuss the basic physical principles, potentialities, limitations and instrumentation design for such laser tomography methods as various diffusing light technologies, laser confocal microscopy, optical coherence tomography and speckle imaging techniques. Also, the most important examples of clinical and laboratory applications of laser imaging for structure and functional diagnostics of tissues and organs will be presented.

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