Researchers and practitioners from radiology and other technical fields, and from various medical specialties such as otolaryngology and oncology explore a number of ways that the imaging technology is being applied in medicine. They cover surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) in biomolecular and cellular investigation, surface-enhanced fluorescence and SERS of anthraquinone anti-tumoral drugs and their complexes with biomolecules on silver nanoparticles, probing the interactions of oligodeoxynucleotides with a cationic peptide, SERS for blood analysis, Raman spectroscopy of single cells for biomedical applications, hyperspectral Raman microscopy of the living cell, and applying Raman spectroscopy to human cancer diagnostics. The authors are indexed. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)