Advances in quantitative UV-visible spectroscopy for clinical and pre-clinical application in cancer

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 119-131

  Brown, J Quincy ^a   Vishwanath, Karthik ^a   Palmer, Gregory M ^b   Ramanujam, Nirmala ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR PROLIFERATIONS; CLINICAL APPLICATIONS; EXTRA CELLULAR MATRICES; FLUORESCENCE SPECTRUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEASURED PARAMETERS; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPIES; REDOX STATE; TISSUE PROPERTIES; TISSUE SPECTROSCOPIES; UV-VISIBLE; UV-VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPIES;

CELL PROLIFERATION; OXYGENATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

DIAGNOSIS;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOGENESIS; BLOOD VOLUME; CALIBRATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; OXIDATION; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 65449127117     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2009.02.004     Document Type: Review

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