Raman Spectroscopy of Biomaterials

This book applies the equations and algorithms developed in the companion book (Raman Spectroscopy of Biomaterials: Theory and Quantitative Algorithms) to illustrative examples in the field of biomedical science, which include healthy and diseased hard and soft tissues in the human body, synthetic materials for biomedical devices, and a number of biological molecules in cells and bacteria. Through the above-selected applications, it is shown that Raman spectroscopy represents a key methodology to develop prompt and low-cost preventive care, to effectively diagnose diseases, to quantitatively assess the performance of biomedical devices, and to propose novel therapies. Upon exploiting the Raman basic algorithms, as rigorously established in the companion book, structural, chemical, and mechanical information is extracted from the experimentally collected spectra and its meanings/implications are discussed in detail.

Author Biography

Giuseppe Pezzotti is distinguished professor and director of the Biomedical Engineering Center of Kansai Medical University in Osaka, Japan. Before this appointment, he was a full professor at the Ceramic Physics Laboratory of Kyoto Institute of Technology, where he was also vice president for International Affairs and Collaborative Research in Health Science for 7 years and is now an emeritus professor. Prof. Pezzotti holds 6 doctoral degrees in different scientific fields, has published more than 800 scientific papers, has authored 3 books, and holds patents in various disciplines, including a world patent on nanoscale stress microscopy, for which he was awarded the prestigious Prize for Scientific Research of the Ministry of Education of Japan in 2017.