Front Cover --; Series Page --; Contents --; Series Preface --; Foreword --; Preface --; Editors --; Contributors --; Section I: Principles of SHG Imaging --; Chapter 1: Theoretical Framework for SHG Microscopy: A Matrix-Based Approach --; Chapter 2: How to Build an SHG Apparatus --; Chapter 3: THG Microscopy of Cells and Tissues: Contrast Mechanisms and Applications --; Chapter 4: SHG Microscopy and Its Comparison with THG, CARS, and Multiphoton Excited Fluorescence Imaging --; Section II: Biomedical Imaging Using SHG --; Chapter 5: Molecular Structure and Order with Second-Harmonic Generation Microscopy --; Chapter 6: 3D SHG Imaging and Analysis of Fibrillar Collagen Organization --; Chapter 7: Second-Harmonic Generation Imaging of Microtubules --; Chapter 8: SHG and Optical Clearing --; Chapter 9: Holographic SHG Imaging --; Chapter 10: Imaging Membrane Potential with SHG --; Section III: Applications of SHG --; Chapter 11: Second-Harmonic Generation Imaging of Self-Assembled Collagen Gels --; Chapter 12: SHG and Multiphoton Fluorescence Imaging of the Eye --; Chapter 13: Multiphoton Excitation Imaging of the Arterial Vascular Bed --; Chapter 14: Combined SHG/THG Imaging --; Chapter 15: SHG Imaging of Collagen and Application to Fibrosis Quantization --; Chapter 16: Quantitative Approaches for Studying the Role of Collagen in Breast Cancer Invasion and Progression --; Chapter 17: SHG in Tumors: Scattering and Polarization --; Chapter 18: SHG Imaging for Tissue Engineering Applications --; Color Inserts --; Back Cover.
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Comprehensive material of fundamentals, mechanisms, theory, practical implementation, and multiple practical applications of the novel and prospective nonlinear optical imaging method. The editors are to be congratulated for this outstanding work, for collecting excellent chapters, and for book editing. useful information for experts in the field and also can serve as a tutorial for master's and PhD students specializing in biomedical engineering and medical science.--Microscopy and Microanalysis, August 2014"This book provides up-to-date coverage of our current understanding of harmonic imaging principles and also the most important biomedical applications of this technique."-From the Foreword by Peter T.C. So, Harvard University.