A naturally occurring contrast agent for OCT imaging of smokers' lung

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 2590-2596

  Yang, Ying ^a   Bagnaninchi, Pierre O ^a   Whiteman, Suzanne C ^a   Van Pittius, Daniel Gey ^b   El Haj, Alicia J ^a   Spiteri, Monica A ^a   Wang, Ruikang K ^c  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMARKERS; CARBON; CELLS; COHERENT LIGHT; FLUORESCENCE; GELS; HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; POLYSACCHARIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TISSUE;

AGAR GELS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); OPTICAL IMAGING; SMOKERS;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23044475105     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/38/15/009     Document Type: Article

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