Measurement of tissue optical properties by time-resolved detection of laser-induced transient stress

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 402-415

  Oraevsky, Alexander A ^a,b   Jacques, Steven L ^a,b   Tittel, Frank K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b The NanoCarbon Center and Welch Institute for Advanced Materials   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic transducer; Light distribution; Optoacoustic imaging; Stress transients; Tissue optics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001558706     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000402     Document Type: Article

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