Refractive index of tissue measured with confocal microscopy

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Dirckx, Joris J J ^a   Kuypers, Liesbeth C ^a   Decraemer, Willem F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biotissue; Imaging; Optical parameters; Optical tomography; Refractive index

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFRACTOMETRY;

DIFFRACTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROSCOPES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

AXIAL SCALING FACTOR; BIOTISSUE; BOVINE MUSCLE TISSUE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL PARAMETERS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

BOVINAE;

EID: 32944464430     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1993487     Document Type: Article

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