Sensing lesions in tissues with light

Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 475-480

  Gayen, S K ^a   Alfano, R R ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOPSY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SAPPHIRE; TITANIUM;

MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL MAMMOGRAPHY; TIME-RESOLVED IMAGING; TURBID MEDIA;

TISSUE;

EID: 0000135441     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.4.000475     Document Type: Article

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