The use of spatially resolved fluorescence and reflectance to determine interface depth in layered fluorophore distributions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 3459-3474

  Stasic, Dragana ^a   Farrell, Thomas J ^a   Patterson, Michael S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT REFLECTION;

FLUOROPHORES;

TISSUE;

IONOPHORE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROPHORE; GEOMETRY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MEASUREMENT; MONITORING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTANCE; SIMULATION; THEORY; THICKNESS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPOLYMERS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 0242606156     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/21/001     Document Type: Article

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