TY - GEN
T1 - Biophysics applications of free-electron lasers
AU - Austin, Robert Hamilton
PY - 1993/12/1
Y1 - 1993/12/1
N2 - There has been a significant financial effort poured into the technology of the Free Electron Laser (FEL) over the last 15 years or so. Much of that money was spent in the hopes that the FEL would be a key element in the Strategic Defense Initiative, but a small fraction of money was allocated for the Medical FEL program. The Medical FELs program was aimed at exploring how the unique capabilities of the FEL could be utilized in medical applications. Part of the Medical FEl effort has been in clinical applications, but some of the effort has also been put into exploring applications of the FEL for fundamental biological physics. It is the purpose of this brief text to outline some of the fundamental biophysics I have done, and some plans we have for the future. Since the FEL is (still) considered to be an avant garde device, the reader should not be surprised to find that much of the work proposed here is also rather radical and avant garde.
AB - There has been a significant financial effort poured into the technology of the Free Electron Laser (FEL) over the last 15 years or so. Much of that money was spent in the hopes that the FEL would be a key element in the Strategic Defense Initiative, but a small fraction of money was allocated for the Medical FEL program. The Medical FELs program was aimed at exploring how the unique capabilities of the FEL could be utilized in medical applications. Part of the Medical FEl effort has been in clinical applications, but some of the effort has also been put into exploring applications of the FEL for fundamental biological physics. It is the purpose of this brief text to outline some of the fundamental biophysics I have done, and some plans we have for the future. Since the FEL is (still) considered to be an avant garde device, the reader should not be surprised to find that much of the work proposed here is also rather radical and avant garde.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0027763777
SN - 0819410802
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
SP - 94
EP - 104
BT - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
A2 - Schwettman, H.A.
PB - Publ by Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
T2 - Free-Electron Laser Spectroscopy in Biology, Medicine, and Materials Science
Y2 - 17 January 1993 through 22 January 1993
ER -