Download or read book Optics of Biological Particles written by Alfons Hoekstra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the optics of single biological particles, both theory and experiment, with emphasis on Elastic Light Scattering and Fluorescence. It deals with the optics of bacteria (bio-aerosols), marine particles (selected phytoplankton communities) and red and white blood cells. Moreover, there are dedicated chapters on a general theory for scattering by a cell, and modelling and simulation of scattering by inhomogeneous biological cells.