Optical properties of normal and cancerous human skin in the visible and near-infrared spectral range

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Salomatina, Elena ^a   Jiang, Brian ^b   Novak, John ^b   Yaroslavsky, Anna N ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption; Cancer; Integrating sphere spectrophotometry; Inverse Monte Carlo technique; Scattering; Skin

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; SKIN TUMOR;

HUMANS; LIGHT; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

ABSORPTION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; SKIN; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE;

BASAL CELL CARCINOMAS (BCC); CANCEROUS HUMAN SKIN; INTEGRATING SPHERE SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; INVERSE MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 33847279768     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2398928     Document Type: Article

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