Depth-sensitive reflectance measurements using obliquely oriented fiber probes

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Wang, Adrien Ming Jer ^a   Bender, Janelle Elise ^a   Pfefer, Joshua ^b   Utzinger, Urs ^c   Drezek, Rebekah Anna ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Epithelial tissue; Fiber optic probes; Monte Carlo; Reflectance spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UTERINE CERVIX;

ALGORITHMS; CERVIX UTERI; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

BIOCHEMISTRY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RAY TRACING; REFLECTOMETERS; TISSUE;

EPITHELIAL TISSUE; FIBER NUMERICAL APERTURE; INDEX MATCHING; OPTICAL DETECTION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 32944455955     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1989335     Document Type: Article

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