Role of collagen in terahertz absorption in skin

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7169, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Tewari, Priyamvada ^a,b   Culjat, Martin O ^a,c,e   Taylor, Zachary D ^a,e   Suen, Jonathan Y ^a,e   Burt, Benjamin O ^d   Lee, Hua ^a,e   Brown, Elliott R ^a,e   Grundfest, Warren S ^a,c   Singh, Rahul S ^a,c,e  

^a Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology CASIT   (United States)

^b Biomedical Engineering IDP   (United States)

^c Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

^d JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption; Collagen; Hydration; Skin; Terahertz; THz

Indexed keywords

A-CENTER; A-SPOTS; ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; COLLAGEN FIBER; EQUIVALENT BANDWIDTH; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGHER-DEGREE; PHOTON ENERGY; PORCINE SKIN; SKIN HYDRATION; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ ABSORPTION; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; THZ; UPPER LAYER; WATER CONCENTRATIONS; WATER SATURATIONS;

COLLAGEN; HYDRATES; HYDRATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; REFLECTION; SKIN; WATER CONTENT;

WATER ABSORPTION;

EID: 66249130053     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.816433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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