Laser-induced fluorescence detection of malignancies in the female genital tract via their natural emission and hypocrellin (HA) probing

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 96-100

  Koumantakis, Eugenios ^a   Liu, W Q ^b   Makrigiannakis, Antonios ^a   Relakis, C ^a   Unsöld, Eberhard ^c   Papazoglou, Theodore G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c Zentrales Laser Laboratorium   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical malignancies; Hypocrellin (HA); Laser induced fluorescence

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; HELIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLPOSCOPY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS; PERYLENE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; QUINONES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0031024716     PISSN: 10111344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1011-1344(96)07346-0     Document Type: Article

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