General Overview on Vibrational Spectroscopy Applied in Biology and Medicine

This chapter contains a short introduction to vibrational spectroscopy followed by an overview on its biological and biomedical applications. The spectroscopic techniques discussed in the book and their special advantages are briefly listed, i.e. Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS), Raman Optical Activity (ROA), Vibrational Circular Dichroism (VCD), Electronic Circular Dichroism (ECD) and matrix isolation.