Seeing Life Through a New Light: Photonics for healthcare and medicine

通过新的视角看待生活：用于医疗保健和医学的光子学

• 批准号: EP/E059406/1
• 负责人: Kishan Dholakia
• 金额: $ 28.45万
• 依托单位: University of St Andrews
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FE059406%2F1
• 关键词: Seeing; Life; Through; New; Light

Light is amazing: Advanced light sources such as lasers are now commonplace in CD/data storage systems in our homes, supermarket bar code readers, telecommunications systems and in media displays. Very notably over the last decade light has made a deep impact in our ability to interrogate and influence the motion of biological samples (e.g. cells, DNA) and even atoms creating even a state of matter knows as the superatom (Bose-Einstein condensation). These changes are quite simply astounding. Light can exert forces to trap (localise) and move microscopic objects (like a cell) and atoms to a small region of space. Light also allows us amazing advances with the ability image cells, track proteins and even perform laser surgery for treatment of skin conditions, tumours and certain forms of cancer. Light is quite simply changing our life.This series of shows incorporates cutting -edge lectures and demonstrations with hands-on experience to show visitors how light can observe and move objects that are very small, smaller than the width of a human hair, how light can treat some forms of cancer and be used in modern medicine and healthcare. The aim will be to convey the basic principles of light and physics that allow us to make these advances and pave the way for exciting 21st century interdisciplinary science and advanced healthcare.

光是惊人的：先进的光源，如激光，现在在我们的家庭，超市条形码阅读器，电信系统和媒体显示器的CD/数据存储系统中是司空见惯的。值得注意的是，在过去的十年里，光对我们询问和影响生物样品（例如细胞，DNA）甚至原子的运动的能力产生了深刻的影响，甚至创造了一种被称为超原子（玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚）的物质状态。这些变化简直令人震惊。光可以施加力来捕获（定位）和移动微观物体（如细胞）和原子到空间的一个小区域。光还使我们能够对细胞进行成像，跟踪蛋白质，甚至进行激光手术治疗皮肤病，肿瘤和某些形式的癌症。光正在改变我们的生活。这一系列的展览结合了前沿的讲座和演示，并结合实践经验，向参观者展示光如何观察和移动非常小的物体，小于人类头发的宽度，光如何治疗某些形式的癌症，以及如何在现代医学和医疗保健中使用。其目的是传达光和物理学的基本原理，使我们能够取得这些进展，并为激动人心的21世纪世纪跨学科科学和先进的医疗保健铺平道路。