Terahertz dark-field imaging of biomedical tissue

Optics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 616-621

  Loffler T ^a   Bauer, T ^a   Siebert, K J ^a   Roskos, H G ^a   Fitzgerald, A ^b   Czasch, S ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; INFRARED IMAGING; IONIZATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TISSUE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DIFFRACTION SIGNATURES; IMAGE CONTRASTS; OPTICAL PULSES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 3242798081     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.9.000616     Document Type: Article

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