Effects of cryogenic grinding on soft-tissue optical properties

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 4526-4532

  Chan, Eric ^a   Menovsky, Thomas ^b   Welch, Ashley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Integrating sphere; Optical properties; Spectrophotometer measurement; Tissue optics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000931112     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.004526     Document Type: Article

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