In vivo spectroscopic ellipsometry measurements on human skin

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Chan, Danny ^a   Schulz, Benjamin ^a   Gloystein, Kathrin ^a   Müller, Heike Hedwig ^a   Rübhausen, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anistropy; Ellipsometry; Matrix multiplication; Spectroscopy; Tissues

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; CELLS; ELLIPSOMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIPIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; REFLECTION; SKIN; TISSUE;

MATRIX MULTIPLICATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY MEASUREMENT;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 34247565574     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2435703     Document Type: Article

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