Dynamic time-resolved diffuse spectroscopy based on supercontinuum light pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 4684-4692

  Swartling, Johannes ^a,b   Bassi, Andrea ^a   D'Andrea, Cosimo ^a   Pifferi, Antonio ^a   Torricelli, Alessandro ^a   Cubeddu, Rinaldo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DIFFUSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROMETERS; TISSUE; TURBIDITY;

DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY (TRS);

SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LASERS; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 23844539462     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.004684     Document Type: Article

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