Imaging in Cellular and Tissue Engineering

This book covers the full range of available imaging modalities and optical methods used to help evaluate material and biological behavior. It also highlights a wide range of optical and biological applications. Each chapter in the text describes a specific application and discusses relevant instrumentation, governing physical principles, data processing procedures, as well as advantages and disadvantages of each modality. Following a broad introduction to key topics, the main chapters are divided between in vitro and in vivo applications. The final section focuses on methods for data processing and analysis.

Hanry Yu is a professor in the Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He is also the group leader in the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (A*STAR), principal investigator in the Research Centre of Excellence in Mechanobiology, and visiting associate professor in the Department of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research activities over the past decade involve interfacing biomaterials with tissue engineering. Dr. Yu earned a PhD in cell biology from Duke University.

Nur Aida Abdul Rahim was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Her research interests range from imaging intracellular fluorescent fusion protein interaction kinetics to stem cell migration and differentiation in microfluidic devices. She earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.