Arterial fluorescent components involved in atherosclerotic plaque instability: Differentiation by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4244, Issue , 2001, Pages 428-433

  Marcu, Laura ^a,b   Grundfest, Warren S ^a   Maarek, Jean Michel I ^b  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Collagen types; Fluorescence impulse response function; Noninvasive tissue characterization; Time resolved laser induced fluorescence

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; FLUORESCENCE; LASER PULSES; LIPIDS; SPECTROSCOPY; TISSUE;

TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY;

COLLAGEN;

EID: 0034930182     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.427829     Document Type: Article

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