Capillary waveguide optrodes: An approach to optical sensing in medical diagnostics

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 3426-3431

  Lippitsch, Max E ^a   Draxler, Sonja ^a   Kieslinger, Dietmar ^a   Lehmann, Hartmut ^b   Weigl, Bernhard H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood gases; Capillaries; Medical diagnostics; Optical sensors; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041353359     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.003426     Document Type: Article

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