Spectrophotometric imaging of cutaneous pigmented lesions: Discriminant analysis, optical properties and histological characteristics

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 32-39

  Tomatis, Stefano ^a   Bartoli, Cesare ^b   Bono, Aldo ^b   Cascinelli, Natale ^d,e   Clemente, Claudio ^c,e   Marchesini, Renato ^a  

^a Division of Health Physics   (Italy)

^b Ist Naz per lo Stud e la C   (Italy)

^c Div of Pathology and Cytopathology   (Italy)

^d Division of Medical Oncology B   (Italy)

^e Casa di Cura S Pio X   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Melanoma; Reflectance; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MELANOMA; PIGMENTED NEVUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MELANOMA; OPTICS; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0031974573     PISSN: 10111344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1011-1344(97)00113-9     Document Type: Article

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