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 Contents
Preface................................................................................................................... xiii
Contributors List ................................................................................................... xv

Chapter 1 The Speckle Phenomenon...................................................................1

Nstor Gustavo Gaggioli and Juan Antonio Pomarico

Chapter 2 Dynamic Speckle: Origin and Features............................................ 21

Marcelo Trivi

Chapter 3 Speckle and Dynamic Speckle Phenomena: Theoretical and

Numerical Models ............................................................................ 53
Mara Fernanda Ruiz Gale, Elsa Noem Hogert, Nstor Gustavo Gaggioli, Hector
J. Rabal, and Antnio Tavares da Costa Jr.

Chapter 4 Methods of Dynamic Speckle Analysis: Statistical Analysis........... 95

Ricardo Arizaga

Chapter 5 Activity Images: Generalized Differences, Fujiis, Lasca, and

Related Methods ............................................................................. 115
Hector J. Rabal

Chapter 6 Frequency Analysis......................................................................... 137

Luca Isabel Passoni, Gonzalo Hernn Sendra, and Constancio Miguel Arizmendi

Chapter 7 Granular Computing in THSP Fuzzy Granular Analysis............... 169

Ana Luca Dai Pra and Luca Isabel Passoni

Chapter 8 Applications in Biological Samples................................................ 181

Roberto A. Braga Jr., Giovanni F. Rabelo, Joao Bosco Barreto Filho, Flvio
M. Borm, Joelma Pereira, Mikiya Muramatsu, and Incio Maria Dal Fabbro

Chapter 9 Applications in Nonbiological Materials........................................ 221

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 Chapter 10 Didactic Dynamic Speckle Software.............................................. 233
Marlon Marcon and Roberto A. Braga Jr.

Chapter 11 Perspectives .................................................................................... 247

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 Preface
Laser history may be written featuring some landmarks that represent our efforts
to understand and develop this widely applicable tool. The first one can be found
in the work of Albert Einstein, when in the beginning of the twentieth century he
presented the theoretical basis required to obtain amplification of light in a desired
frequency. The transition from theory to practice required much energy, and 40 years
later materialized in the second major advance with Maimanns work in the 1950s,
which triggered a new stage of research. The developments in laser sets and their
applications started an avalanche similar to that occurring with electrons transi-
tions in lasers, promoting further cooperation among researchers in physics and the
applied sciences. A new laser field allowed new applications, and other uses were
found, prompting more laser sets research.
Further landmarks have appeared since then, and now, in less time, new applica-
tions have been developed, along with advanced laser technologies. The research
accelerated with the improvement of computers, frame grabbers, and, of course, with
their price reduction.
Some research branches that have gained prominence are holography and speckle
interferometry, both analogical and digital. Holography itself has provided many
metrological tools for the nondestructive testing of actual applicative utility. It also
called the attention of experimenters to the granular appearance of the objects that
were illuminated by the coherent source.
Initially a negative in the field of holographic imagery, the speckle phenomenon soon
proved itself as an aid in the development of metrological tools that peaked with the digital
speckle pattern interferometry, digital holography, and optical coherence tomography.
Forrester, Cummins, Berg, Abramson, Briers, and many others showed the way
for the applications discussed in this book, demonstrating interesting uses of laser
light images in biological tissue. In this direction, other researchers pursued appli-
cations in the biological material field, using the dynamic speckle laser phenom-
enon as an instrument for biological activity characterization. This activity was then
observed as a sample under laser light, producing the dynamic speckle phenomenon,
known also as biospeckle. We found dynamic speckle phenomenon to be a special
way to see objects in another dimension, providing more information.
Biospeckle study constitutes a multidisciplinary area that challenges scientists to
connect with one anothers specialties. There is a naturally high complexity in the
interaction of the laser beam with distinct biological samples, all containing a large
amount of variables interacting with light. Biological tissues, in the variability of
their samples, offer an even wider range for study.
This book intends to contribute by presenting some bridges created to help the
work in the biological and nonbiological metrology using dynamic speckle laser.
It is divided into three parts. The first is related to the presentation of the theoreti-
cal basis of the phenomenonspeckle in Chapter 1 and biospeckle in Chapter 2.
The first part is concluded with the discussion in Chapter 3 on models, theoretical

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 and numerical, to simulate the laser light interaction with the biological samples
discussed. The second part of the book uses four chapters to present the main meth-
odologies for analyzing biospeckle phenomena. Chapter 4 presents the statistical
analysis, Chapter 5 the image analysis, and Chapter 6 deals with the concepts of
frequency decomposition. The second part concludes in Chapter 7 with the discus-
sion of fuzzy methods to treat dynamic speckle data. The third part of the book is
dedicated to application approaches, presenting some interesting cases, especially
related to agricultural areas. The examples of biospeckle metrology were divided
into biological (in Chapter 8) and nonbiological materials (Chapter 9). Finishing the
third part we decided to share with students and teachers, in particular, some soft-
ware to facilitate easy start-up in dynamic speckle usage, which has been presented
in Chapter 10.
New solutions and prospects are expected to come from interdisciplinary cross
talk, and this book represents an effort in that direction with its groups of scientists
communicating here their experiences and evaluating the state of the art. It is their
hope to offer to the worldwide community of scientists, teachers, students, and pro-
fessionals information that could be useful to further their studies and applications.
Finally, we discuss in Chapter 11 the future of the technique, presenting some
challenges, introducing new research areas, and evaluating the reliability of the tech-
nique to improve biological metrology.
Considerable effort went into this books gathering together of assessments in
research so that a clear presentation could be made of the advances in the field.
Generous help and excellent contributions were made by our colleagues in this
regard. We especially want to offer this final version first to our colleague Nestor
Gaggioli, who had a stroke at the end of the writing process. We hope to share with
him, in good health, the satisfaction of finishing this challenge.
We also would like to share our gratitude with these other colleagues: Claudia
Gonzalez, Nelly Cap, Christian Weber, Prof. Guillermo Kaufmann, Prof. Giovanni
Rabelo, and, in particular, the people of the Taylor & Francis Group, represented by
Jessica Vakili.
In Argentina, we thank the support of Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones
Cientficas y Tcnicas, Comisin de Investigaciones Cientficas de la Provincia de
Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, and, in Brazil, the
Universidade Federal de Lavras, CAPES, CNPq, FAPEMIG, and FINEP.
Finally, we extend our appreciation to the Third World Academy of Sciences
(TWAS), International Centre of Theoretical Physics, and International Commission
for Optics (ICO).

Hector J. Rabal
Roberto A. Braga Jr.

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 Contributors List
Ana Luca Dai Pra
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata
Laboratorio de Inteligencia Artificial
Facultad de Ingeniera
Mar del Plata, Argentina
Antnio Tavares da Costa Jr.
Instituto de Fsica
Universidade Federal Fluminense
Campus da Praia Vermelha
Niteri, Brazil
Constancio Miguel Arizmendi
Departamento de FsicaFacultad de
Ingeniera
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata, Argentina
Elsa Noem Hogert
Comisin Nacional de Energa
Atmica
San Martn, Pcia. de Bs. As.
Argentina
Flvio M. Borm
Campus UFLA Dep. Engenharia
Universidade Federal de Lavras
Lavras, Brazil
Giovanni F. Rabelo
Campus UFLA Dep. Engenharia
Universidade Federal de Lavras
Lavras, Brazil
Gonzalo Hernn Sendra
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones
Cientficas y Tcnicas
Centro de Investigaciones pticas.
Ciop.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Hector Jorge Rabal
Centro de Investigaciones pticas
CONICET y Faculdad de Ingenieria,
UID OPTIMO
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
La Plata, Argentina
Incio Maria Dal Fabbro
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
FEAGRIUNICAMPCidade
Universitria Zeferino Vaz
Campinas, Brazil
Joao Bosco Barreto Filho
Campus UFLA Dep. Medicina Veterinria
Universidade Federal de Lavras
Lavras
Joelma Pereira
Campus UFLA Dep. Engenharia
Universidade Federal de Lavras
Lavras, Brazil
Juan Antonio Pomarico
Universidad Nacional del Centro de la
Provncia de Buenos Aires UNCPBA
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Luca Isabel Passoni
Laboratorio de BioingenieraFacultad
de Ingeniera
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata, Argentina
Marcelo Trivi
Centro de Investigaciones Opticas
(CONICETCIC)
UID Optimo, Dpto. Ciencias Bsicas,
Facultad de Ingeniera
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
La Plata, Argentina, Brazil
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 Mara Fernanda Ruiz Gale Nstor Gustavo Gaggioli
Comisin Nacional de Energa Atmica Optics and Laser Lab
San Martn, Pcia. de Bs. As. Department ENDECNEA
Argentina Consejo Nacional de Investigacin
Cientfica y Tcnica
Marlon Marcon San Martn, Pcia. de Bs. As.
Campus UFLA Dep. Engenharia Argentina
Universidade Federal de Lavras
Lavras, Brazil Ricardo Arizaga
Centro de Investigaciones Opticas
Mikiya Muramatsu CONICET y Faculdad de Ingenieria,
Instituto de FsicaUniversidade de So UID OPTIMO
Paulo Universidad Nacional de La Plata, UNLP
So Paulo, Brazil Argentina

Roberto A. Braga Jr.

Campus UFLA Dep. Engenharia
Universidade Federal de Lavras
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