A novel hemispherical spectro-polarimetric scattering instrument for skin lesion imaging

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6078, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Boulbry, Bruno ^a   Germer, Thomas A ^a   Ramella Roman, Jessica C ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Catholic University of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging; Polarization; Skin cancer; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

HEMISPHERICAL SHELL; ROUGH SKIN BACKSCATTERING; SKIN CANCER; SUPERFICIAL SKIN LESIONS;

BACKSCATTERING; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CAMERAS; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33646192068     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.648164     Document Type: Conference Paper

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