Melanin absorption spectroscopy: New method for noninvasive skin investigation and melanoma detection

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Zonios, George ^a   Dimou, Aikaterini ^a   Bassukas, Ioannis ^b   Galaris, Dimitrios ^b   Tsolakidis, Argyrios ^c   Kaxiras, Efthimios ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

diffuse reflectance; eumelanin; melanin; pheomelanin; spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF DATA; CLINICAL DATA; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; DYSPLASTIC NEVI; EUMELANINS; EXPONENTIAL DEPENDENCE; HUMAN SKIN; IN-SITU; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; INTRINSIC DIFFERENCES; MALIGNANT MELANOMA; MELANIN; MELANOMA DETECTION; NON-INVASIVE DETECTION; PHEOMELANIN; PIGMENTED SKIN LESIONS;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTRA; DERMATOLOGY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; ONCOLOGY; REFLECTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

MELANIN; TUMOR MARKER; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MELANOMA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TUMOR; SPECTROSCOPY;

DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MELANINS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 38049055180     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2844710     Document Type: Article

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