From photon to neuron : light, imaging, vision / Philip Nelson ; with the assistance of Sarina Bromberg, Ann M. Hermundstad, and Jesse M. Kinder

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]Description: xxviii,482 pages : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780691175195
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 535
Contents:
What is light?
Photons and life
Color vision
How photons know where to go
Optical phenomena and life
Direct image formation
Imaging as inference
Imaging by X-ray diffraction
Vision in dim light
The mechanism of visual transduction
The first synapse and beyond
Electrons, photons, and the Feynman principle
Field quantization, polarization, and the orientation of a single molecule
Quantum-mechanical theory of FRET
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-466) and index.

What is light?

Photons and life

Color vision

How photons know where to go

Optical phenomena and life

Direct image formation

Imaging as inference

Imaging by X-ray diffraction

Vision in dim light

The mechanism of visual transduction

The first synapse and beyond

Electrons, photons, and the Feynman principle

Field quantization, polarization, and the orientation of a single molecule

Quantum-mechanical theory of FRET

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