Anatomic characterization of human ultra-weak photon emission with a moveable photomultiplier and CCD imaging

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-76

  Van Wijk, Roeland ^a,b   Kobayashi, Masaki ^c   Van Wijk, Eduard P A ^a  

^a International Institute of Biophysics   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biophoton; Human body; Photon counting; Photon imaging; Spatial emission pattern; Ultra weak photon emission

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY DISTRIBUTION; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRUNK;

ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33644869281     PISSN: 10111344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2005.12.005     Document Type: Article

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