Ultraviolet laser-induced fluorescence of human stomach tissues: Detection of cancer tissues by imaging techniques

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 149-158

  Chwirot, Barbara W ^a   Jçdrzejczyk, Stanislaw Chwirotwaldemar ^a   Jackowski, Marek ^a   Raczynska, Anna M ^a   Winczakiewicz, Jacek ^a   Dobber, Joanna ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Autofluorescence imaging; Cancer diagnostics; Early diagnosis; Fluorescence; Gastric malignancies; Native fluorescence; Noninvasive; Optical biopsy; Optical spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH MUCOSA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

FLUORESCENCE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HUMANS; LASERS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030744409     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1997)21:2<149::AID-LSM6>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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