Clinical testing of a photoacoustic probe for port wine stain depth determination

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 141-148

  Viator, John A ^a   Au, Gigi ^a,b   Paltauf, Guenther ^c   Jacques, Steven L ^d   Prahl, Scott A ^d   Ren, Hongwu ^a   Chen, Zhongping ^a   Stuart Nelson, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic transducer; Acrylamide; Optical fiber; Optoacoustic; PVDF; Q switched; Skin

Indexed keywords

GLASS FIBER; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; NEODYMIUM LASER; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

DERMATOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; PORT-WINE STAIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0036176254     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.10015     Document Type: Article

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