The goal of our project is to use computational methods, such as discrete dipole approximation (DDA) to study
nanoparticles in biomedical photonics problems. Nanoparticle absorption and scattering are strongly affected by their
shape, size, composition and dielectric environment. We focus on light scattering from nanoparticles embedded in
biological or biocompatible media, such as water, glycerin and hemoglobin at erythrocyte hemoglobin concentration at
concentration characteristic to intrinsic erythrocyte concentration. This method lets us consider complex refractive index
of the nanoparticle and the surrounding medium as a function on the wavelength of light. We are interested in strong
absorption and scattering around 800 nm that makes such nanoparticles potentially useful in biomedical applications,
such as detection and curing cancer. Considering nanoparticles in living cells containing nanoparticles lets us understand
light scattering from normal and pathological structures within biological tissue.
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