Botan Nakamura & Akira Tanaka 
Optical Imaging 
Technology, Methods and Applications

Optical imaging describes the behavior of visible, ultraviolet, and infrared radiation used in imaging techniques based on optical principles. Reflection, refraction, interference, scattering, transmission, polarization and/or luminescence/fluorescence processes are involved in the optical study of different materials, organic, inorganic, natural or synthetic. In this book, the authors discuss optical image analysis and determination of dispersed multi-phase flow for simulation and control; optical imaging applications for the study of cultural heritage artifacts; atomic and magnetic force microscopy of semiconductor and semimagnetic nanocrystals; imaging, spectroscopy and sensing with single and coupled metallic nanoparticles; methods for suppressing random and nonrandom noise in fluorescence imaging; and optical coherence tomography.