Effects of fiber-optic probe design and probe-to-target distance on diffuse reflectance measurements of turbid media: An experimental and computational study at 337 nm

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2846-2860

  Papaioannou, Thanassis ^a   Preyer, Norris W ^b   Fang, Qiyin ^a   Brightwell, Adam ^b   Carnohan, Michael ^b   Cottone, Greg ^b   Ross, Russel ^b   Jones, Linda R ^b   Marcu, Laura ^a,c  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b School of Business   (United States)

^c University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIAGNOSIS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL DESIGN; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; TISSUE;

OPTICAL TECHNIQUES; TURBID MEDIA;

FIBER OPTICS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, ULTRAVIOLET; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 2542500560     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002846     Document Type: Article

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