Adaptive optics in biology /

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"Version: 20171101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 24-25).Biological imaging at the cellular level, particularly in vivo, is a key enabling tool for understanding biological processes, disease diagnosis and drug development. Unfortunately, specimens under observation often introduce optical aberrations that degrade the imaging resolution, particularly when imaging deep into tissue. Adaptive optics counteracts these effects. This technology, originally developed and applied in astronomy, has been increasingly applied to ophthalmics and microscopy. This book introduces the key concepts and technologies behind adaptive optics. The wide diversity of imaging methods used in biological imaging requires multiple approaches to adaptive optics. Methods fall into two broad categories--those that use a direct measurement of the aberration and those that do not. Relative advantages of each are described. Application results are presented. Finally, current technology trends and promising future application areas are discussed.Final-year undergraduates, new PhD students and early-career scientists.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Carl Kempf PhD, PE is a senior systems engineer at Iris AO, Inc. He has worked on sensing, actuation, and control systems for high precision devices for over 30 years. His background spans data storage devices, factory automation, laboratory instruments, and adaptive optics. He has researched and published within the general field of mechatronics, with emphasis on repetitive control, disturbance observer techniques, wave-front control, system identification and modeling. Kempf's technical interests include real-world implementation, meaning extensive digital, analog, and power electronics design, construction and debugging. This goes hand-in-hand with low-level firmware development on embedded systems such as digital signal processors and field programmable logic devices. Kempf is a registered Profession Engineer in California.Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 11, 2017).

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1 online resource (viii, 25 pages) :illustrations (some color).

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English

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9780750315487

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570.28/2

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Biophysics.
Microscopy.
Optics, Adaptive.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biophysic.

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Carl J. Kempf.

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