An introduction to medical imaging with coherent terahertz frequency radiation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2002, Pages

  Fitzgerald, A J ^a   Berry, E ^a   Zinovev, N N ^a   Walker, G C ^a   Smith, M A ^a   Chamberlain, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; IONIZING RADIATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

WAVELENGTHS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CHICKEN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; INFRARED RADIATION; INTERFEROMETER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAFETY; SKIN DISEASE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SWINE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TOOTH DISEASE; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGINATES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROMAGNETICS; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; RADIATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SKIN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0037035356     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/7/201     Document Type: Review

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