Enhanced optical clearing of human skin at topical application of immersion agents to stratum corneum pretreated by a lattice-like photothermal ablation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6078, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tuchin, Valery V ^a   Altshuler, Gregory B ^b   Gavrilova, Anna A ^a   Pravdin, Alexander B ^a   Tabatadze, David ^b   Childs, Jim ^b   Yaroslavsky, Ilya V ^b  

^a SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Palomar Medical Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhancement of epidermal permeability; Lattice of islets of damage; Optical skin clearing

Indexed keywords

ENHANCEMENT OF EPIDERMAL PERMEABILITY; LATTICE OF ISLETS OF DAMAGE; OPTICAL IMMERSION; OPTICAL SKIN CLEARING; STRATUM CORNEUM (SC);

DIAGNOSIS; GLUCOSE; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DERMATOLOGY;

EID: 33646180397     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.660015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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