Design and performance of a wide-bandwidth and sensitive instrument for near-infrared spectroscopic measurements on human tissue

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 5315-5325

  Rovati, Luigi ^a   Bandera, Andrea ^a   Donini, Maurizio ^a   Salvatori, Giorgia ^a   Pollonini, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW-NOISE DETECTION SYSTEMS; NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY (NIRS); OPTICAL PROBES; SYSTEM BANDWIDTH;

AVALANCHE DIODES; BANDWIDTH; DENSITY (OPTICAL); HEMOGLOBIN; PHOTODIODES; PRODUCT DESIGN; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 20444448889     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1818588     Document Type: Article

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