In vivo tissue measurements with optical low coherence tomography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2981, Issue , 1997, Pages 78-84

  Lankenau, Eva ^b   Welzel, Julia ^a   Birngruber, Reginald ^a   Engelhardt, Ralf ^a  

^a MEDICAL LASER CENTER LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endoscope; In vivo skin measurements; Optical coherence tomography; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL EQUIPMENT; HETERODYNING; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MEASUREMENTS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; TOMOGRAPHY;

A CENTERS; BACKSCATTERED LIGHTS; COHERENCE LENGTHS; DIAGNOSTIC METHODS; ENDOSCOPE; HETERODYNE DETECTIONS; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGES; HIGH SPEEDS; IN VITRO; IN VIVO MEASUREMENTS; IN VIVO SKIN MEASUREMENTS; INTERFEROMETRIC METHODS; INTERFEROMETRIC SIGNALS; LIGHT ATTENUATIONS; MALIGNANT MELANOMATA; MICROSCALE RESOLUTIONS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL LOW COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; POINT DETECTIONS; REFERENCE MIRRORS; SCATTERING TISSUES; SET-UPS; SKIN CANCER; SKIN LAYERS; SUPERLUMINESCENCE; TISSUE SAMPLES;

SKIN;

EID: 0013206647     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.274299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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