Melanin optical properties provide evidence for chemical and structural disorder in vivo

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 8263-8268

  Zonios, George ^a   Dimou, Aikaterini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); DISEASES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SKIN; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH;

BIOLOGICAL VARIABLES; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FITZPATRICK SKIN TYPE III; MELANIN;

CHROMOPHORES;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MELANIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEVUS; SKIN; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MELANINS; NEVUS; SKIN; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 44649192356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008263     Document Type: Article

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