Attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared and polarization spectroscopy of in vivo human skin ablated, layer by layer, by erbium:YAG laser

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 820-827

  Sviridov, Alexander P ^a   Zimnyakov, Dmitry A ^b   Sinichkin, Yury P ^b   Butvina, Leonid N ^c   Omelchenko, A J ^a   Shakh, G S ^d   Bagratashvili, Victor N ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c FIBER OPTICS RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

^d Presidential Admin Department   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ablation; Degree of polarization; Epidermis; Spectra

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTION; EPIDERMIS; ERBIUM YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET LASER; LASER TREATMENT; POLARIZATION MONITORING;

ABSORPTION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HEMOGLOBIN; LASER ABLATION; LASER DAMAGE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROTEINS; SKIN; SOLID STATE LASERS;

DERMATOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN; SKIN DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4444233339     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1755719     Document Type: Article

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