Simulating the response of terahertz radiation to basal cell carcinoma using ex vivo spectroscopy measurements

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Pickwell, Emma ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Anthony J ^b   Cole, Bryan E ^b   Taday, Philip F ^b   Pye, Richard J ^c   Ha, Thomas ^c   Pepper, Michael ^a,b   Wallace, Vincent P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TERAVIEW LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Finite difference time domain; Modeling; Terahertz imaging; Terahertz pulsed imaging

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MEDICAL IMAGING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; EX VIVO SPECTROSCOPY; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TERAHERTZ PULSED IMAGING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

ONCOLOGY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TUMOR; SPECTROSCOPY;

CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33645210306     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2137667     Document Type: Article

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