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Book Review: Photoacoustic imaging and spectroscopy
No full textPhotoacoustic Imaging and Spectroscopy
Lihong V. Wang, Editor, 499 pages +xx, ISBN: 978-1-4200-
5991-5, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton,
Florida (2009), $149.95, hardcover.
Reviewed by Barry R. Masters, Visiting Scientist, Department of
Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and Visiting Scholar, Department of the History of Science,
Harvard University, Fellow of AAAS, OSA, and SPIE.
[email protected]
Photoacoustic Imaging and Spectroscopy is a multiauthored reference
book that presents an advanced series of disparate chapters
on the mathematical foundations, instrumentation, and applications
of photoacoustic and thermoacoustic imaging. Lihong Wang, an
eminent author, educator, scientist, and leader in the field of photoacoustic
imaging and spectroscopy, is the editor of this book. Clearly
this field is extremely active as evidenced by the diversity, the
scope, and the quality of the field’s published literature. Nevertheless,
I was surprised to read the back cover, which I think
is overreaching with the claim that photoacoustics may make
as dynamic a contribution to modern medicine as the discovery
of the x ray once did. While this may be a “typical”
overstatement by the publisher’s marketing team, it should be
noted that within one year of the discovery of x rays there
were more than one thousand publications related to the topic
Imaging: a laboratory manual, by Rafael Yuste, editor
No full textImaging: A Laboratory Manual
Rafael Yuste, Editor 952 pages; ISBN 978-087969-36-9, Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,Woodbury, NewYork (2011), $165
paperback.
Reviewed by Barry R. Masters, Visiting Scientist, Department
of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and Visiting Scholar, Department of the History of Science,
Harvard University, Fellow of AAAS, OSA, and SPIE. E-mail:
[email protected]
Imaging: A Laboratory Manual is a useful book for students and researchers interested in the rapidly advancing broad field of biological optical imaging. I recommend Imaging as a general and introductory textbook and laboratory manual for undergraduate and graduate laboratory courses in biological optical imaging. Imaging provides a balance of introductory technical materials with clear and precise experimental protocols, technical limitations, cautions, and detailed
technical insights. It is modern in its coverage and includes chapters on modern microscopies, including super-resolution imaging, and linear and nonlinear optical microscopy
Book Review: Biomedical Optical Imaging
No full textBiomedical Optical Imaging is
edited by two eminent and distinguished
educator-scientists. Professor
James G. Fujimoto is with
the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences
at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and also an adjunct
professor of ophthalmology
at the Tufts New England Medical
Center. Professor Daniel L. Farkas
is the vice chairman for research
in the Department of Surgery and
the director of the Minimally Invasive Surgical Technologies
Institute at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles;
he is also a research professor in biomedical engineering at
the University of Southern California and an adjunct professor
with the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. The
editors designated eminent researchers and their colleagues to
contribute chapters on the application of optical imaging to
the field of biomedicine. The editors state that their choice of
topics in this book is focused mainly on reviewing technologies
that are currently used in research, industry, or medicine,
rather than those that are being developed. The interests of the
editors and the space limitations of a 400-page book limited
the scope of the chapter selections; other editors would have
provided a different table of contents. Notably there are no
chapters that cover the modern important advances in photoacoustic
imaging
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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