Sonophoretic delivery for contrast and depth improvement in skin optical coherence tomography

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-61

  Xu, Xiangqun ^a,b   Zhu, Qiuhong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Enhancement of epidermal permeability; Optical coherence tomography (OCT); Skin optical clearing; Sonophoresis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

OPTICAL CLEARING AGENTS; SKIN OPTICAL CLEARING; SONOPHORESIS;

SKIN;

EID: 39449087266     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.912900     Document Type: Article

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