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Contains papers from a March 1998 meeting on a field that brings together basic physics of photon propagation, optical engineering, and clinical sciences. Papers are organized in sections on theory, simulation, and experiment in light propagation in scattering media, optical characterization of tissue and other scattering media, diffuse optical imaging, clinical and in vivo studies of diffuse optical imaging and functional assessment, optical coherence tomography and coherence imaging, and imaging and microscopy including nonlinear optics and light/sound interaction. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)