Thermal imaging through infrared fiber/waveguides bundles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5317, Issue , 2004, Pages 94-100

  Gannot, Israel ^a,b   Goren, Alon ^a   Rave, Eran ^a   Katzir, Abraham ^a   Gopal, Veena ^c   Revezin, Gregory ^a   Harrington, James A ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexible hollow waveguides; IR imaging; Minimal invasive surgery; Silver halide fibers

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COATING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL GLASS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILVER; SURGERY;

FLEXIBLE HOLLOW WAVEGUIDES; MINIMAL INVASIVE SURGERY; SILVER HALIDE FIBERS;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 5644239814     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.533071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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