V. Tuchin

Valery Tuchin is Head of Chair of Optics and Biomedical Physics and Director of Research-Educational Institute of Optics and Biophotonics at Saratov State University. He has authored more than 250 papers and books, including his latest, Tissue Optics. Light Scattering Methods and Instrumentation for Medical Diagnosis (SPIE Tutorial Texts in Optical Engineering, Vol. TT38, 2000; second edition, PM166, 2007), Handbook of Optical Biomedical Diagnostics (SPIE Press, Vol. PM107, 2002), Coherent-Domain Optical Methods for Biomedical Diagnostics, Environmental and Material Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, USA, vols. 1 & 2, 2004, Optical Clearing of Tissues and Blood (SPIE Press, Vol. PM154, 2005), and Optical Polarization in Biomedical Applications (co-authors L. Wang and D.A. Zimnyakov; Springer, 2006). Some of the contributors: Martin Leahy, University of Limerick, Ireland Attila Tárnok, University of Leipzig, Germany Andreas O.H. Gerstner, University of Bonn, Germany Anja Mittag, University of Leipzig, Germany Megha Makam, Daisy Diaz, Rabindra Tirouvanziam, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA Steven Boutrus, Derrick Hwu & Cherry Greiner, Tufts University, MA, USA Michael Chan & Charlotte Kuperwasser, Tufts-New England Medical Center, MA, USA Charles P. Lin & Irene Georgakoudi, Harvard Medical School,MA, USA E.I. Galanzha, Saratov State University, Russia V.P. Zharov, Arkansas University of Medical Science, USA A.V. Priezzhev, A.G. Lugovtsov, S.Yu. Nikitin & Yu.I. Gurfinkel, Moscow State University, Russia Valeri P. Maltsev, Maxim A. Yurkin & Elena Eremina,Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Novosibirsk, Russia Alfons G. Hoekstra & Thomas Wriedt,University of Amsterdam, The Neverlands Péter Nagy % György Vereb, János Szöllsi, University of Debrecen, Hungary