Foreword
Modern medicine is constantly in need of creation and implementation of new
contactless, noninvasive methods of human organism study. During the last decades, many methods based on the X-ray radiation, electrophysiological and magnetic properties of tissues became habitual in clinical practice. In addition to that
methods of computerized, positron-emission and magnetic resonance tomography,
Doppler ultrasonography and many other methods that facilitate medical processes
are widely used and improved in medicine.
In 1975, one of the authors of the monograph Leonid V. Tanin, the graduate of
Leningrad Optical School: Physical Department of Leningrad State University
(Optics and Spectroscopy Department, 1971), postgraduate course of postgraduate
course of Leningrad Physics and Technology Institute named after A. F. Ioffe of the
Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Plasma optics sector, 1974) is coming back to
Belarus.
Being employed by the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the
BSSR, young scientist, Candidate of physical and mathematical sciences
Leonid V. Tanin began conducting active scientific studies in the spheres of laser
physics, holography and medicine. In 1978, Leonid V. Tanin, being the employee
of the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, initiated and
created the group “Coherent-optical studies of medical–biological systems” in the
Institute of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Physiotherapy of the Ministry of Health
of the BSSR. Leonid V.Tanin was in charge of this group of scientists and highly
skilled specialists more than 20 years. Leonid V. Tanin stood at the origins and was
one of the first creators of a new scientific school subsequently named biomedical
optics. The perspectivity of this school in science was confirmed by the fact that
few publications during the period from 1978 to 1982 today turned into grandiose
international scientific congresses and conferences.
The results of original fundamental and applied studies conducted in the
co-authorship with scientists of different spheres: medics, biologists, physicists,
biophysicists, engineers, specialists in the sphere of electronics, programmers that
provided the implementation of brand new coherence-optical methods of the
diagnosing, treatment and prevention of pathologic disorders of cardiovascular and
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Modern medicine is constantly in need of creation and implementation of new
contactless, noninvasive methods of human organism study. During the last decades, many methods based on the X-ray radiation, electrophysiological and magnetic properties of tissues became habitual in clinical practice. In addition to that
methods of computerized, positron-emission and magnetic resonance tomography,
Doppler ultrasonography and many other methods that facilitate medical processes
are widely used and improved in medicine.
In 1975, one of the authors of the monograph Leonid V. Tanin, the graduate of
Leningrad Optical School: Physical Department of Leningrad State University
(Optics and Spectroscopy Department, 1971), postgraduate course of postgraduate
course of Leningrad Physics and Technology Institute named after A. F. Ioffe of the
Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Plasma optics sector, 1974) is coming back to
Belarus.
Being employed by the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the
BSSR, young scientist, Candidate of physical and mathematical sciences
Leonid V. Tanin began conducting active scientific studies in the spheres of laser
physics, holography and medicine. In 1978, Leonid V. Tanin, being the employee
of the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, initiated and
created the group “Coherent-optical studies of medical–biological systems” in the
Institute of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Physiotherapy of the Ministry of Health
of the BSSR. Leonid V.Tanin was in charge of this group of scientists and highly
skilled specialists more than 20 years. Leonid V. Tanin stood at the origins and was
one of the first creators of a new scientific school subsequently named biomedical
optics. The perspectivity of this school in science was confirmed by the fact that
few publications during the period from 1978 to 1982 today turned into grandiose
international scientific congresses and conferences.
The results of original fundamental and applied studies conducted in the
co-authorship with scientists of different spheres: medics, biologists, physicists,
biophysicists, engineers, specialists in the sphere of electronics, programmers that
provided the implementation of brand new coherence-optical methods of the
diagnosing, treatment and prevention of pathologic disorders of cardiovascular and
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