Ball lens coupled fiber-optic probe for depthresolved spectroscopy of epithelial tissue

Optics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1159-1161

  Schwarz, Richard A ^a   Arifler, Dizem ^a   Chang, Sung K ^a   Pavlova, Ina ^a   Hussain, Insiya A ^a   Mack, Vivian ^a   Knight, Bob ^a   Richards Kortum, Rebecca ^a   Gillenwater, Ann M ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITHELIAL TISSUE; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; PROBE TIPS; TISSUE PHANTOMS;

COLLAGEN; DATA REDUCTION; FIBER OPTICS; FLUORESCENCE; MORPHOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

PROBES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EPITHELIUM; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIUM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; LENSES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 20444430467     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.001159     Document Type: Article

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