Combining a professional development course on diagnostic endoscopy from SPIE (the international society advancing light-based research) and the authors’ graduate course on biomedical optics, this work is written for researchers in medical optics and biomedical engineering as well as graduate medical optics students. It uses extensive examples/case studies to familiarize readers with the basics of endoscopic optics, the pros and cons of white light endoscopy and fluorescence endoscopy for diagnostic applications, and various microscopic endoscopy imaging modalities. It covers basic optics, details of design and biomedical uses, as well as microscopic endoscopy, and endoscopic spectroscopy.

About the Author

BC Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Cana

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Basic Components of Endoscopes
Chapter 3: Light Propagation in Tissue— Radiative Transport Theory
Chapter 4: White Light Endoscopy
Chapter 5: Fluorescence Endoscopy
Chapter 6: Endoscopic Reflectance and Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Chapter 7: Endoscopic Raman Spectroscopy
Chapter 8: Endoscopic Confocal Microscopy
Chapter 9: Optical Coherence Tomography
Chapter 10: Nonlinear Endomicroscopy
Chapter 11: Micro-Manufacturing Technology of MEMS/MOEMS for Catheter Development
Chapter 12: Clinical Applications in the Lung
Chapter 13: Clinical Applications in the Gastrointestinal Tract