Controlling the optical path length in turbid media using differential path-length spectroscopy: Fiber diameter dependence

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 365-371

  Kaspers, O P ^a   Sterenborg, H J C M ^a   Amelink, A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; SCATTERING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TURBIDITY;

DIFFERENTIAL PATH LENGTH SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL PATH LENGTH;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 41549167280     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.000365     Document Type: Article

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