Optical clearing of blood by dextrans

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5149, Issue , 2002, Pages 21-28

  Xu, Xiangqun ^a   Wu, Liu ^a   Wang, Ruikang K ^a   Elder, James B ^b   Tuchin, Valery V ^c  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Optical clearing of blood; Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; BACKSCATTERING; COHERENT LIGHT; HEMODYNAMICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOTOMETERS; POLYSACCHARIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL CLEARING OF BLOOD; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT);

BLOOD;

EID: 1642514620     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.518630     Document Type: Conference Paper

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