Ultrafast laser-pulse transmission and imaging through biological tissues

Applied Optics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 554-558

  Liu, Feng ^a   Yoo, K M ^a   Alfano, R R ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SCATTERING; BALLISTICS; HISTOLOGY; LASER PULSES; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

DISCRETE SCATTERS; PICOSECOND TIME RESOLVED DETECTION; ULTRAFAST LASER PULSE TRANSMISSION;

TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; DISCRETE SCATTERERS; OPAQUE OBJECTS; PICOSECOND TIME; PULSE TRANSMISSION; SHARP CONTRAST; SUB-MILLIMETER RESOLUTIONS; TRANSMITTED PULSE;

EID: 0027539268     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.32.000554     Document Type: Article

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