Optical coherence and Doppler tomography for monitoring tissue changes induced by laser thermal therapy - An in vivo feasibility study

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 74, Issue 1 II, 2003, Pages 437-440

  Yang, Victor X D ^a,b   Pekar, Julius ^a,b   Lo, Stewart S W ^a,b   Gordon, Maggie L ^a,b   Wilson, Brian C ^a,b   Vitkin, I Alex ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LASER THERMAL THERAPY;

LASER TISSUE INTERACTION;

EID: 0037280575     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1519680     Document Type: Conference Paper

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