Measuring the effects of topically applied skin optical clearing agents and modeling the effects and consequences for laser therapies

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5695, Issue , 2005, Pages 278-287

  Verkruysse, Wim ^a   Khan, Misbah ^a   Choi, Bernard ^a   Svaasand, Lars O ^b   Nelson, Stuart J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Reflector array; Refractive index matching; Scattering coefficient; Topical application; Treatment depth

Indexed keywords

REFLECTOR ARRAYS; REFRACTIVE INDEX MATCHING; SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; TOPICAL APPLICATION; TREATMENT DEPTH;

COHERENT LIGHT; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MIRRORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY;

SKIN;

EID: 23244434227     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.591421     Document Type: Conference Paper

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