Medical infrared imaging - Differentiating facts from fiction, and the impact of high precision quantum well infrared photodetector camera systems, and other factors, in its reemergence

Infrared Physics and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 3-5, 2001, Pages 337-344

  Fauci, M A ^a   Breiter, R ^b   Cabanski, W ^b   Fick, W ^b   Koch, R ^b   Ziegler, J ^b   Gunapala, S D ^c  

^a OmniCorder Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b AIM INFRAROT MODULE GMBH   (Germany)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; INFRARED DETECTORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

MEDICAL INFRARED IMAGING; QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTOR CAMERA SYSTEMS;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 0035368625     PISSN: 13504495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4495(01)00093-7     Document Type: Article

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