Development of a handheld Raman microspectrometer for clinical dermatologic applications

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 11874-11882

  Lieber, Chad A ^a,b   Mahadevan Jansen, Anita ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DERMATOLOGY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

FOR FUTURE DERMATOLOGIE STUDIES; RAMAN SYSTEMS;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 34648825578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011874     Document Type: Article

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