In vivo port-wine stain depth determination with a photoacoustic probe

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 3215-3224

  Viator, John A ^a   Choi, Bernard ^a   Ambrose, Martin ^b   Spanier, Jerome ^b   Nelson, J Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PATIENT MONITORING; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SKIN;

PORT-WINE STAIN (PWS);

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

MELANIN;

ACOUSTICS; APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METABOLISM; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; OPTICS; SKIN;

ACOUSTICS; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HUMANS; MELANINS; OPTICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PORT-WINE STAIN; SKIN;

EID: 0038209506     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.003215     Document Type: Article

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