The optical properties of human tissue at terahertz frequencies

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5143, Issue , 2003, Pages 59-68

  Sudworth, Caroline D ^a   Fitzgerald, Anthony J ^a   Berry, Elizabeth ^a   Zinov'ev, Nickolay N ^b   Homer Vanniasinkam, Shervanthi ^c   Miles, Robert E ^b   Chamberlain, Martyn ^b   Smith, Michael A ^a  

^a Acad Unit of Psychiat/Behav Sci   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absorption coefficient; Biological variability; Human tissue; Refractive index; Terahertz pulsed imaging

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCIES; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SKIN; TISSUE;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; BIOLOGICAL VARIABILITY; PULSED TERAHERTZ IMAGING SYSTEM;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 1342267276     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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