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From photon to neuron : light, imaging, vision / Philip Nelson ; with the assistance of Sarina Bromberg, Ann M. Hermundstad, and Jesse M. Kinder.
Math/Physics/Astronomy Library QC355.3 .N45 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, Philip Charles, author.
- Bromberg, Sarina, author.
- Hermundstad, Ann, author.
- Kinder, Jesse M., 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Light.
- Photons.
- Optics.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 482 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691175188
- 0691175187
- 9780691175195
- 0691175195
- OCLC:
- 965805046
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