Medical applications of infrared transmitting silver halide fibers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 872-878

  Moser, F ^a   Bunimovich, D ^a,b   DeRowe, A ^a,c,d   Eyal, O ^a   German, A ^a,e   Gotshal, Y ^a   Levite, A ^a   Nagli, L ^a,f,g   Ravid, A ^a   Scharf, V ^a   Shalem, S ^a   Shemesh, D ^a   Simchi, R ^a   Vasserman, I ^a   Katzir, A ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

^c MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d Children's Hospital of Wisconsin   (United States)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MISIS   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^g Latvian Academy of Science

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED TRANSMISSION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER SURGERY; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY;

INFRARED RADIATION THERMOMETRY; MIDDLE INFRARED RADIATION; SILVER HALIDE FIBERS;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 0030360826     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.577309     Document Type: Article

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