Biophotonic methods in microcirculation imaging

Medical Laser Application

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 105-126

  Leahy, Martin J ^a   Enfield, Joey G ^a   Clancy, Neil T ^a   O'Doherty, Jim ^a   McNamara, Paul ^a   Nilsson, Gert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biophotonics; Capillaroscopy; Laser Doppler; Laser speckle; Microcirculation imaging; Perfusion monitoring; Photo acoustic tomography (PAT); Tissue viability imaging (TiVi)

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; INFRARED IMAGING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; TISSUE; VISUALIZATION;

BIOPHOTONIC METHODS; BIOPHOTONICS; CAPILLAROSCOPY; LASER DOPPLER; LASER SPECKLE; MICROCIRCULATION IMAGING; PERFUSION MONITORING; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY (PAT); TISSUE VIABILITY IMAGING (TIVI);

MICROCIRCULATION;

EID: 34848865033     PISSN: 16151615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mla.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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