Fluorescence Spectroscopy: New Methods and Applications

Fluorescence spectroscopy has found widespread application in many fields of science and medicine - including physics, chemistry, biology, biochemistry, clinical medicine, cytology, immunology, hydrogeology, and the environmental sciences. This text is divided into chapters on new methods in the field, applications, fluorescence immunoassays, fluorometric analysis and fluorescence spectroscopy in the biomedical sciences. It presents recent applications of and new developments in fluorescence spectroscopy written by experts in the field. The contents cover fluorescence spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation; picosecond fluorescence spectroscopy, fluorescence microscopy; fluorescence scattering by synthetic polymers; fluorescence immunoassays; fluorescence for environmental monitoring; fluorescence in flow injection analysis; hydrogeological studies; fluorescence of proteins, lipids and membranes; cell fluorescence; calcium transients.