Simultaneous detection of molecular oxygen and water vapor in the tissue optical window using tunable diode laser spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2028-2034

  Persson, Linda ^a   Lewander, Märta ^a   Andersson, Mats ^a   Svanberg, Katarina ^b   Svanberg, Sune ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODES; GASES; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; MODULATION; OXYGEN; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TISSUE; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER VAPOR;

ABSORPTION FRACTION; MINIMUM DETECTION LIMITS; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION; SIMULTANEOUS DETECTION; SPECTROSCOPIC SYSTEMS; TUNABLE DIODE LASER SPECTROSCOPY; WAVELENGTH MODULATION;

MOLECULAR OXYGEN;

OXYGEN; WATER;

ABSORPTION; AIR; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PATHOLOGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ABSORPTION; AIR; BRAIN; COMPUTERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; OPTICS; OXYGEN; SOFTWARE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER;

EID: 49949088449     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.002028     Document Type: Article

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