title: The road to medical vibrational spectroscopy--a history.
abstract: The present Editorial chronicles the journey from classical infrared and Raman spectroscopy to medical vibrational spectroscopy, as experienced by a contemporary witness of the times. During the second half of the last century vibrational biospectroscopy became a topic of increasing global interest and has spawned a number of international conferences of which the most recent, SPEC 2012 - Shedding New Light on Disease, constitutes the basis of the present themed issue.
authors: Henry H
authors: HH
authors: Mantsch
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared / Q000266:history*; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman / Q000266:history*; D014732:Vibration