Translational Multimodality Optical Imaging

Designed for professional use by engineers and researchers, this includes full details on the principal concepts, instrumentation, and methods of in vivo microscopy. After an overview of the present and future of multimodality optical imaging, contributors describe key optical imaging techniques, the integration of optical imaging techniques with other modalities such as MRI, x-ray imaging, and PET imaging. They assess software platforms for multimodal integration, computational and data processing techniques, advances in photodynamic therapy and molecular imaging, key clinical studies in optical imaging, regulatory issues and business practices. They emphasize optical technologies such as instrumentation, common problems in multimodality imaging, exogenus fluorescent contrast agents, fluorescence molecular tomography and other emerging optical imaging technologies. The result supports the latest clinical advances in cancer detection and other important applications. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Fred S. Azar is the External Projects Lead and a scientific investigator in the Department of Imaging and Visualization at Siemens Corporate Research Inc., Princeton, New Jersey. Dr. Azar holds more than 15 provisional patents/patents and has worked for several leading institutions such as Sarnoff Corporation, the Montreal Neurological Institute, and GE Medical Systems. Dr. Azar earned a Ph.D. in bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, a Master degree at Ecole Centrale Paris, and is pursuing an M.B.A. at the Wharton School.

Xavier Intes is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York. Prior to joining RPI, Dr. Intes was the chief scientist of Advanced Research Technologies Inc., Canada. He has co-written more than 80 peer-reviewed papers in the field, holds numerous patents, and serves as a reviewer for several science and engineering journals. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France.