Laser Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy from Native Cancerous and Normal Tissue

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 1984, Pages 1507-1511

  Alfano, Robert R ^a   Tata, Darayash B ^a   Cordero, Julius ^a   Alfano, Michele A ^a   Tomashefsky, Philip ^b   Longo, Frank W ^b  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers The City College of New York ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROSCOPY;

FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORPHORS; NATIVE CANCEROUS TISSUE; NORMAL TISSUE;

LASERS;

EID: 0021600199     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.1984.1072322     Document Type: Article

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