Minimally invasive electrical impedance spectroscopy of skin exemplified by skin cancer assessments

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 3211-3214

  Aberg P ^a   Nicancer, I ^b   Ollmar, S ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Electrical impedance; Skin; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIES; ELASTICITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGY; SPECTROMETERS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TISSUE; TUMORS;

ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; SKIN CANCER;

SKIN;

EID: 1542300720     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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