Main description:

Modern Luminescence From Fundamental Concepts to Materials and Applications, Luminescence in Biomedicine, Volume Three is a multi-volume work that reviews the fundamental principles, properties and applications of luminescent materials. Topics addressed include key concepts of luminescence, with a focus on important characterization techniques to understand a wide category of luminescent materials, the most relevant luminescent materials, including transition metals, rare-earth materials, actinide-based materials, and organic materials, emerging applications of luminescent materials in biomedicine, solid state devices, and the development of hybrid materials.

Finally, the book reviews the latest advances in the application of luminescence and luminescent materials in the field of biomedicine. It includes a review of the use of luminescent nanoparticles and nanomaterials used in diagnosis, detection and therapy. Future applications are also discussed, including nanothermometry, nanotechnology in immunotherapy and gene delivery and bio-based luminescent sensing and detection.

Contents:

Unit 1: Light in Medical Science 1. Physics of Electromagnetic waves in medicine 2. Applications of luminescence nanoparticles in Biomedical and nanomedicine

Unit 2: Light in Diagnoses, Detections and Therapy 3. Up/down conversion Nanomaterials for bio-imaging and sensing 4. NIR- based multimodal bioimaging and therapy 5. Nano-scintillation & applications of high energy radiation bio-imaging 6. Biomedical Cerenkov luminescence imaging applications 7. Photothermal therapy and nanothermotry: A potential clinical application 8. Optical twizers and luminescence: Applications in Biology 9. Optical and x-ray technology synergies enabling diagnostic and therapeutic applications in medicine 10. Persistent Luminescence Nanoparticles: From Biosensing/Bioimaging to Theranostics 11. Intercorrelation of Nanostructures with Photodynamic therapy 12. Design of luminescence-based sensors and detectors in health industry

Unit 3: Future of Light in medicines 13. Advancement of Light in diagnosis, therapy and surgery 14. Real time in-vivo temperature feedback and sensing: Nanothermometry 15. Nano in immunotherapy and gene delivery 16. Biosensing, Bio-detections and luminescence

Unit 4: Experimental Techniques 17. Spectroscopic Instrumentation III