Monitoring of the alignment in developing tissue-engineered constructs by elastic scattering spectroscopy

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5, Issue 30, 2004, Pages 198-202

  Kostyuk, Oksana ^a   Brown, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Collagen Gels; Elastic Scattering Spectroscopy; Human Dermal Fibroblasts

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COLLAGEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; GELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROSCOPY;

COLLAGEN GELS; ELASTIC SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY; GEL CONTRACTION; HUMAN DERMAL FIBROBLASTS;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 12144255095     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.572435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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