Miniature injection-molded optics for fiber-optic, in vivo confocal microscopy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4832, Issue , 2002, Pages 126-136

  Chidley, Matthew D ^a   Liang, Chen ^a   Descour, Michael R ^a   Sung, Kung Bin ^b   Richards Kortum, Rebecca ^b   Gillenwater, Ann M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; Cervical cancer; Confocal microscopy; FCRM; Miniature injection molded optics

Indexed keywords

ENDOSCOPY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MIRRORS; ONCOLOGY; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PROBES; SOLID STATE LASERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FIBER CONFOCAL REFLECTANCE MICROSCOPE; MINIATURE INJECTURE-MOLDED OPTICS;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0038349634     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.486426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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