Spectral variations of laser-induced tissue emission during in vivo detection of malignancies in the female genital tract

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 183-186

  Koumantakis, Eugenios ^b   Vasileiou, Alexios ^a   Makrigiannakis, Antonios ^b   Unsöld, Eberhard ^c   Papazoglou, Theodore G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical malignancies; Laser induced fluorescence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CASE REPORT; COLPOSCOPY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TUMOR BIOPSY;

BIOPSY; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINES; LASERS; OVARY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0031238403     PISSN: 10111344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1011-1344(97)00053-5     Document Type: Article

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