Noninvasive imaging of living human skin with dual-wavelength optical coherence tomography in two and three dimensions

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 446-455

  Pan, Yingtian ^a   Farkas, Daniel L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2D and 3D optical tomography; In vivo living human skin imaging; Optical coherence microscopy; Optical coherence tomography (OCT); Two wavelength comparative imaging

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN; TISSUE;

OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0032179250     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.429897     Document Type: Article

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