I recommend this updated, comprehensive textbook and reference for its clear writing, detailed mathematical derivations, physical insights, reworked figures, extensive references, problem sets with solutions, mathematical appendices and an index. The book reflects the editor’s years of teaching this material and his training as both an engineer and a physicist. There is a balance between theory and applications. It is intended for researchers and engineering students who are taking graduate level courses. This book is full of unique insights that would benefit anyone who works with biomedical imaging. The first chapters cover the details of random variables and random processes, making it mathematically self-contained, and there is an appendix on the Fourier transform. The chapters on temporal and spatial coherence of light are exemplary. Researchers who are interested in deep-tissue imaging will find the chapter on imaging through randomly inhomogeneous media especially useful. I found the chapter on fundamental limits in photoelectric detection of light to be a clear, concise, modern and mathematically rigorous exposition.
Review by Barry R. Masters, Fellow of AAAS, OSA and SPIE
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