Design and testing of an endoscopic photoacoustic probe for determination of treatment depth after photodynamic therapy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4256, Issue , 2001, Pages 16-27

  Viator, John A ^a   Paltauf, Guenther ^b   Jacques, Steven L ^c   Prahl, Scott A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c Oregon Medical Laser Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Nd:YAG; Optical fiber; Propagation time; PVDF; Q switched

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LASERS; ONCOLOGY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; TISSUE;

ENDOSCOPIC PHOTOACOUSTIC PROBE; ESOPHAGEAL CANCER;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

EID: 0034863823     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.429311     Document Type: Article

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