Experimental measurement of the refractive index of biological tissues by total internal reflection

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1845-1849

  Lai, Jiancheng ^a   Li, Zhenhua ^a   Wang, Chunyong ^a   He, Anzhi ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALIBRATION; FUNCTIONS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TISSUE;

GONIOMETER; LIGHT-TISSUE INTERACTION; SCATTERING EFFECTS; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; KIDNEY; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; LIVER; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

EID: 16644362860     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001845     Document Type: Conference Paper

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