Ronald W. Waynant is Editor in Chief of IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine and senior optical engineer at the Food and Drug Administration's Electro-Optical Branch. He also gathered the distinguished contributors for and edited the first edition of this Handbook. He resides in Rockville, Maryland. Marwood Ediger has over 12 years' experience in the use of lasers in medical applications. Marwood lives in Vienna, Virginia.
