In vivo determination of local skin optical properties and photon path length by use of spatially resolved diffuse reflectance with applications in laser Doppler flowmetry

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 124-134

  Larsson, Marcus ^a   Nilsson, Henrik ^a   Strömberg, Tomas ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINGER; FOREARM; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; OPTICS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; SKIN; THEORETICAL MODEL; VASCULARIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINGERS; FOREARM; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; PHOTONS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SKIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY;

LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY (LDF);

LASER TISSUE INTERACTION;

EID: 0037208241     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.000124     Document Type: Article

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