Biophotonics
Biophotonics
Biophotonics (pronunciation: bio-fo-ton-ics) is a multidisciplinary field that uses light-based technologies to study biological materials.
Etymology
The term "Biophotonics" is a combination of "biology" and "photonics". "Biology" is derived from the Greek words "bios" meaning "life" and "logos" meaning "study". "Photonics" is derived from "photon", the fundamental particle of visible light.
Definition
Biophotonics is the application of photonics in the field of biology and medicine. It involves the study of the interaction between light and biological materials. This field is used for imaging, sensing, and manipulating biological materials.
Related Terms
- Photonics: The physical science of light (photon) generation, detection, and manipulation through emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and sensing.
- Biology: The natural science that studies life and living organisms, including their physical structure, chemical processes, molecular interactions, physiological mechanisms, development and evolution.
- Light: Electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. In the context of biophotonics, light is used to study, image, and manipulate biological materials.
- Optics: The branch of physics which involves the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it.
- Biomedical Optics: A subfield of biophotonics that uses light to study and treat biological tissues.
- Fluorescence Microscopy: An optical microscope that uses fluorescence and phosphorescence instead of, or in addition to, reflection and absorption to study properties of organic or inorganic substances.
- Optical Coherence Tomography: An imaging technique that uses light to capture micrometer-resolution, three-dimensional images from within optical scattering media (e.g., biological tissue).
See Also
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Biophotonics
- Wikipedia's article - Biophotonics
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