Nelson, Philip Charles

From photon to neuron : light, imaging, vision / Philip Nelson ; with the assistance of Sarina Bromberg, Ann M. Hermundstad, and Jesse M. Kinder - xxviii,482 pages : illustrations (some color)

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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