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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Biological Sciences Graduate Student
Like many introduction to optics books published by Wiley, this book is well organized and gives an excellent overview with some good illustrations (terrible representation of Optical Coherence Tomography). It is a good overview of many areas like bioimaging and biosensors. As a biological science graduate student, I found the few formulas easy to understand. FRET and...
Published on June 17, 2004
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Very superficial coverage, and my book is missing sections
When I recieved the book, everything seemed to be in order, and it was only when I tried to read chapter 4 (Fundamentals of Light-Matter Interaction, which some might argue, is quite important) that I discovered, this valuable chapter had been replaced by incoherent babble about statistical methods and linear algebra, that did not match the table of contents...
Published on January 17, 2006 by A. Potter
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Very superficial coverage, and my book is missing sections,
This review is from: Introduction to Biophotonics (Hardcover)
When I recieved the book, everything seemed to be in order, and it was only when I tried to read chapter 4 (Fundamentals of Light-Matter Interaction, which some might argue, is quite important) that I discovered, this valuable chapter had been replaced by incoherent babble about statistical methods and linear algebra, that did not match the table of contents. Furthermore, it didn't have anything to do with biology, or photonics. I don't know if all of the books contain this misprint, but I wouldn't buy it from Amazon (at least check it when you get it so that you can return it if your's is screwed up!)
Furthermore, the book has many interesting topics, but each is covered in a very superficial way. Mathematical models are avoided almost totally, and the ocassional equations have no derivation. This could be a plus for some, but I feel like this book would not help anyone solve actually engineering problems in biophotonics. It was merely a collection of interesting summaries.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Biological Sciences Graduate Student,
By A Customer
This review is from: Introduction to Biophotonics (Hardcover)
Like many introduction to optics books published by Wiley, this book is well organized and gives an excellent overview with some good illustrations (terrible representation of Optical Coherence Tomography). It is a good overview of many areas like bioimaging and biosensors. As a biological science graduate student, I found the few formulas easy to understand. FRET and FLIM should have been developed better. The web references are convenient. I definitely recommend this book to anyone wanting to have a good overview on different biological optical applications. |
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Introduction to Biophotonics by Paras N. Prasad (Hardcover - April 8, 2003)
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