Kerr-gated picosecond Raman spectroscopy and Raman photon migration of equine bone tissue with 400-nm excitation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5321, Issue , 2004, Pages 164-169

  Morris, Michael D ^a   Goodship, Allen E ^b   Draper, Edward R C ^b   Matousek, Pavel ^c   Towrie, Michael ^c   Parker, Anthony W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Harwell Science and Innovation Campus   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bone; Fluorescence; Photon migration; Raman spectroscopy; Time resolved

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BONE; EXCIMER LASERS; FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PHOTONS; POLYSTYRENES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

DEPTH PENETRATION; LASER POWER; PHOTON MIGRATION; TIME-RESOLVED;

GATES (TRANSISTOR);

EID: 5644294507     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.531517     Document Type: Conference Paper

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