Preface
The creation of modern contactless, noninvasive methods for the human organism
study and their introduction into medical practice with the help of a new generation
of medical–biological devices based on the holography and speckle-optics is one
of the actual objectives, and it became a reason for the creation of the given work.
The main idea of the studies of Leonid V. Tanin is the creation and development
of a new direction in the medicine called biomedical optics. The author set himself a
task to develop physical basis and principles of studies of medical–biological
objects, starting from fundamental studies up to concrete practical applications.
Enormous interest toward acquiring new knowledge in the sphere of biology and
medicine constituted the search of modern scientific approaches and methods of
studies with the usage of coherent and nonlinear optics, holography, resonant
interferometry, speckle-optics, laser physics, etc., and their adaptation in the
practical sphere.
In 1975, Leonid V. Tanin suggested beginning coherent-optical, holographic and
speckle-optical studies of neuromuscular and cardiovascular systems that remain
actually up to the present moment. A few years later in 1978 in the Institute of
Neurology, Neurosurgery and Physiotherapy of the Ministry of Health of the
BSSR, he created the scientific group “Coherent-optical studies of medical–biological objects,” which was engaged into the development and usage of brand new
contactless highly sensitive methods and devices and appliances for the diagnostics
and treatment of diseases of peripheral and central nervous systems. In the same
year, the author for the first time published scientific works in this area.
The book consists of five chapters. In Chap. 1, the results of the studies in the
sphere of resonance optics including resonance dynamic holography, resonance
interferometry and fluorescence are presented. Chapter 2 covers holographic
interference microscopy for the study of such microobjects as nerve fiber, muscle
fiber, lymphocytes, nerve, muscles in conditions of electrostimulation, influence of
laser radiation, magnetic fields, hyperbaries with the usage of continuous and gated
radiations of He–Ne laser, including the development and creation of an experimental sample of holographic interference microscope operating on the transmission and in the reflected light.
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The creation of modern contactless, noninvasive methods for the human organism
study and their introduction into medical practice with the help of a new generation
of medical–biological devices based on the holography and speckle-optics is one
of the actual objectives, and it became a reason for the creation of the given work.
The main idea of the studies of Leonid V. Tanin is the creation and development
of a new direction in the medicine called biomedical optics. The author set himself a
task to develop physical basis and principles of studies of medical–biological
objects, starting from fundamental studies up to concrete practical applications.
Enormous interest toward acquiring new knowledge in the sphere of biology and
medicine constituted the search of modern scientific approaches and methods of
studies with the usage of coherent and nonlinear optics, holography, resonant
interferometry, speckle-optics, laser physics, etc., and their adaptation in the
practical sphere.
In 1975, Leonid V. Tanin suggested beginning coherent-optical, holographic and
speckle-optical studies of neuromuscular and cardiovascular systems that remain
actually up to the present moment. A few years later in 1978 in the Institute of
Neurology, Neurosurgery and Physiotherapy of the Ministry of Health of the
BSSR, he created the scientific group “Coherent-optical studies of medical–biological objects,” which was engaged into the development and usage of brand new
contactless highly sensitive methods and devices and appliances for the diagnostics
and treatment of diseases of peripheral and central nervous systems. In the same
year, the author for the first time published scientific works in this area.
The book consists of five chapters. In Chap. 1, the results of the studies in the
sphere of resonance optics including resonance dynamic holography, resonance
interferometry and fluorescence are presented. Chapter 2 covers holographic
interference microscopy for the study of such microobjects as nerve fiber, muscle
fiber, lymphocytes, nerve, muscles in conditions of electrostimulation, influence of
laser radiation, magnetic fields, hyperbaries with the usage of continuous and gated
radiations of He–Ne laser, including the development and creation of an experimental sample of holographic interference microscope operating on the transmission and in the reflected light.
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