Refractive index measurement in human tissue samples

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5226, Issue , 2003, Pages 413-417

  Tsenova, Vesselina ^a   Stoykova, Elena ^b,c  

^a Department of Pathology   (Bulgaria)

^b Ctrl Lab Optical Storage/Proc I   (Bulgaria)

^c BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Refractive index of tissues; Total internal reflection

Indexed keywords

REFRACTIVE INDEX OF TISSUES; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION;

DEHYDRATION; LASER BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PATHOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS;

TISSUE;

EID: 2342593893     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.519584     Document Type: Conference Paper

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