Fiber optic probes for biomedical optical spectroscopy

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 121-147

  Utzinger, Urs ^a,b   Richards Kortum, Rebecca R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber optic sensors; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Polarized reflectometry; Raman spectroscopy; Reflectance spectroscopy; Resonance Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; REFLECTOMETERS; TISSUE;

BIOMEDICAL OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; FIBER OPTIC PROBES; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLARIZED REFLECTOMETRY; REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; SAFETY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; SAFETY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 0037208325     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1528207     Document Type: Article

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