Clinical optical diagnostics - Status and perspectives

Medical Laser Application

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 155-174

  Johansson, Ann ^a   Kromer, Katharina ^a   Sroka, Ronald ^a   Stepp, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Diagnostic imaging; Endoscopy; Fluorescence; Multiphoton fluorescence microscopy; Optical coherence tomography; Reflectance; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COHERENT LIGHT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENDOSCOPY; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEALTH CARE; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; OXIMETERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; REFLECTION; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

AND SCATTERINGS; CLINICAL APPLICATIONS; CLINICAL USES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC POTENTIALS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; LABORATORY DEVICES; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; MOLECULAR COMPOSITIONS; MULTIPHOTON; MULTIPHOTON FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL DIAGNOSTICS; OPTICAL METHODS; OPTICAL PHENOMENON; OPTICAL TECHNOLOGIES; PULSE OXIMETRY; REFLECTANCE; RELEVANT INFORMATIONS; SHORT LASER PULSES; STRUCTURAL DETAILS; TARGET TISSUES; TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESSES; TISSUE DIAGNOSTICS;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 54849420875     PISSN: 16151615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mla.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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