Changes in optical properties of ex vivo rat prostate due to heating

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1375-1386

  Skinner, Matthew G ^a   Everts, Sarah ^a   Reid, Angela D ^a   Vitkin, I Alex ^a   Lilge, Lothar ^a   Sherar, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; HEATING; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RAT; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; DOGS; HEAT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICS; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SWINE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034118088     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/5/319     Document Type: Article

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