Optical clearing of in vivo human skin with hyperosmotic chemicals investigated by optical coherence tomography and near infrared reflectance spectroscopy

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5, Issue 30, 2004, Pages 129-135

  Xu, Xiangqun ^a   He, Yonghong ^a   Proskurin, Sergey ^a   Wang, Ruikang K ^a   Elder, James ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Near infrared reflectance spectroscopy; Optical clearing; Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION;

MICRON-SCALE RESOLUTION; NEAR INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OCT; OPTICAL CLEARING;

SKIN;

EID: 12144282343     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.571991     Document Type: Conference Paper

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