19 Molecular imaging
405
Imaging in cells and bodies
405
Green fluorescent protein
405
Mechanism of chromophore formation
408
Fluorescence resonance energy transfer
410
Imaging of GFP in cells
412
Imaging in organisms
414
Radioactive decay
415
PET
416
Parkinson’s disease
418
References and further reading
419
Problems
419
20 Photosynthesis
421
Energy transfer and light-harvesting complexes
423
Electron transfer, bacterial reaction centers, and photosystem I
425
Water oxidation
430
References and further reading
436
Problems
437
Answers to problems
439
Index
488
Fundamental constants
493
Conversion factors for energy units
493
The periodic table
494
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