Screen LibraryFrom photon to neuron : light, imaging, vision /
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, New Jersey : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxviii, 482 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), forms ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-466) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691175195 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 0691175195 (paperback : alkaline paper) 9780691175188 (hardback : alkaline paper) 0691175187 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | QC355 |
| CLC: | O572.31 |
| Call Number: | O572.31/N428 |
| 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. |