E-edition, Alfons Hoekstra, Enschede, the Netherlands, 2000, 191 pp.
The study of Elastic Light Scattering (ELS) from human white bloodcells (leukocytes) is the guiding research theme of this thesis. This problem will be addressed from a computational and an experimental point of view. Such an interdisciplinary approach tries to combine the very different fields of experimental biophysics, physics of ELS, and computational science. The main part of the thesis consists of the development of a computer simulation of ELS and subsequent applications. In that respect the computational study of ELS serves as a very rich example application for modern computational science, where feasibility of Massively Parallel Processing to solve real problems is a major research item.Contents.
General Introduction.
The Effect of Aniosmotic Media on the Volume of the T-Lymphocyte Nucleus.
Yet another Face of Lorenz-Mie Scattering: Mono Disperse Distributions of Spheres produce Lissajous-like Patterns.
A Parallel Conjugate Gradient Method applied to Elastic Light Scattering Simulations.
A Parallel Implementation of the Coupled Dipole Method of Elastic Light Scattering.
A Comparison of Native and Generic Programming Environments for a Transputer Platform.
Dipolar Unit Size in Coupled Dipole Calculations of the Scattering Matrix Elements.
Coupled Dipole Simulations of Scattering of Spheres illuminated by a Highly Focused Laser beam.
Concluding Remarks.
Summary.
