chapter 1 Biomedical Photonics: A Revolution at the Interface of Science and Technology -- part Part I: Photonics and Tissue Optics -- chapter 2 Optical Properties of Tissue -- chapter 3 Light-Tissue Interactions -- chapter 4 Theoretical Models and Algorithms in Optical Diffusion Tomography / part Part II: Photonic Devices -- chapter 5 Laser Light in Biomedicine and the Life Sciences: From the Present to the Future / chapter 6 Basic Instrumentation in Photonics -- chapter 7 Optical Fibers and Waveguides for Medical Applications -- chapter 8 Biological Imaging Spectroscopy -- part Part III: Photonic Detection and Imaging Techniques -- chapter 9 Lifetime-Based Imaging -- chapter 10 Confocal Microscopy -- chapter 11 Two-Photon Excitation Fluorescence Microscopy -- chapter 12 Near-Field Imaging in Biological and Biomedical Applications -- chapter 13 Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging -- chapter 14 Speckle Correlometry -- chapter 15 Laser Doppler Perfusion Monitoring and Imaging / chapter 16 Light Scatter Spectroscopy and Imaging of Cellular and Subcellular Events / chapter 17 Thermal Imaging for Biological and Medical Diagnostics -- part Part IV: Biomedical Diagnostics I -- chapter 18 Glucose Diagnostics -- chapter 19 In Vitro Clinical Diagnostic Instrumentation -- chapter 20 Biosensors for Medical Applications -- chapter 21 Functional Imaging with Diffusing Light -- chapter 22 Photon Migration Spectroscopy Frequency-Domain Techniques / chapter 23 Atomic Spectrometry in Biological and Clinical Analysis -- chapter 24 Capillary Electrophoresis Techniques in Biomedical Analysis / chapter 25 Flow Cytometry -- chapter 26 X-Ray Diagnostic Techniques -- chapter 27 Optical Pumping and MRI of Hyperpolarized Spins -- part Part V: Biomedical Diagnostics II: Optical Biopsy -- chapter 28 Fluorescence Spectroscopy for Biomedical Diagnostics -- chapter 29 Elastic-Scattering Spectroscopy and Diffuse Reflectance -- chapter 30 Raman Spectroscopy: From Benchtop to Bedside -- chapter 31 Quantitative Characterization of Biological Tissue Using Optical Spectroscopy -- chapter 32 Recent Developments in Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Microspectroscopic Methods for Biomedical Analyses: From Single-Point Detection to Two-Dimensional Imaging -- chapter 33 Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging and Spectroscopy in Random Media and Tissues -- chapter 34 Optoacoustic Tomography -- chapter 35 Ultrasonically Modulated Optical Imaging -- part Part VI: Intervention and Treatment Techniques -- chapter 36 Mechanistic Principles of Photodynamic Therapy -- chapter 37 Synthetic Strategies in Designing Porphyrin-Based Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy -- chapter 38 Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) and Clinical Applications -- chapter 39 Laser Tissue Welding -- chapter 40 Lasers in Dermatology -- chapter 41 Lasers in Interventional Pulmonology -- chapter 42 Lasers in Neurosurgery -- chapter 43 Lasers in Ophthalmology -- chapter 44 Lasers in Otolaryngology -- chapter 45 Lasers in Urology -- chapter 46 Therapeutic Applications of Lasers in Gastroenterology -- chapter 47 Lasers Treatment of Breast Tumors -- chapter 48 Low-Power Laser Therapy -- chapter 49 Image-Guided Surgery -- chapter 50 Optical Methods for Caries Detection, Diagnosis, and Therapeutic Intervention -- part Part VII: Advanced Biophotonics for Genomics, Proteomics, and Medicine -- chapter 51 Biochips and Microarrays: Tools for the New Medicine -- chapter 52 Array Technologies and Multiplex Genetic Analysis -- chapter 53 DNA Sequencing Using Fluorescence Detection -- chapter 54 Living-Cell Analysis Using Optical Methods -- chapter 55 Amplification Techniques for Optical Detection -- chapter 56 Fluorescent Probes in Biomedical Applications -- chapter 57 Novel Fluorescent Molecular Beacon DNA Probes for Biomolecular Recognition -- chapter 58 Luminescent Quantum Dots as Advanced Biological Labels -- chapter 59 PEBBLE Nanosensors for in Vitro Bioanalysis -- chapter 60 Nanosensors for Single-Cell Analysis -- chapter 61 Advanced Photonics: Optical Trapping Techniques in Bioanalysis -- chapter 62 In Vivo Bioluminescence Imaging as a Tool for Drug Development / chapter 63 Liposome-Based Systems for Biomedical Diagnostics and Therapy / chapter 64 Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) for Biomedical Diagnostics / part Part VIII: Appendix -- chapter 65 Spectroscopic Data of Biologically and Medically Relevant Species and Samples.