Out-of-plane polarimetric imaging of skin: Surface and subsurface effects

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5686, Issue , 2005, Pages 142-153

  Ramella Roman, Jessica C ^a,b   Duncan, Don ^a   Germer, Thomas A ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT IMAGING; SKIN IMAGING; SKIN LESIONS; SUBSURFACE EFFECTS;

DERMATOLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHTING; POLARIMETERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURGERY; TUMORS;

SKIN;

EID: 23244466866     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.592399     Document Type: Conference Paper

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8. Certain commercial equipment, instruments, or materials are identified in this paper in order to specify the experimental procedure adequately. Such identification is not intended to imply recommendation or endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology or Johns Hopkins University, nor is it intended to imply that the materials or equipment identified are necessarily the best available for the purpose.