Identification and imaging of the nerves responsible for erectile function in rat prostate, in vivo, using optical nerve stimulation and optical coherence tomography

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1641-1645

  Fried, Nathaniel M ^a   Rais Bahrami, Soroush ^b,c   Lagoda, Gwen A ^b   Chuang, Ai Ying ^b   Su, Li Ming ^b   Burnett III, Arthur L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Arthur Smith Institute for Urology   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser biomedical applications; Nervous system; Thulium; Urinary system

Indexed keywords

NEUROLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; SURGERY;

CAVERNOUS NERVES; ERECTILE FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; PROSTATE CANCER SURGERY; URINARY SYSTEMS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 38149007108     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.910119     Document Type: Article

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