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From photon to neuron : light, imaging, vision /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nelson, Philip Charles (Author), Bromberg, Sarina (Author), Hermundstad, Ann (Author), Kinder, Jesse M., 1978- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Light.
Photons.
Optics.
Table of 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.