Investigations of normal human skin tissue and acupuncture points of human skin tissue using fiberoptical FTIR spectroscopy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3262, Issue , 1998, Pages 173-184

  Brooks, Angelique ^a   Brunch, Reinhard F ^a   Afanasyeva, Natalia I ^a   Kolyakov, Sergei F ^a   Butvina, Leonid N ^a   Ma, Lixing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; FTIR spectroscopy; Optical fibers; Skin tissue diagnostics in vivo

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; DIAGNOSIS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBER OPTICS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; OPTICAL FIBERS; PROBES; SKIN; TISSUE;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTION; HUMAN SKIN TISSUES; MIDDLE INFRARED WAVELENGTH;

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0032224869     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.309469     Document Type: Conference Paper

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