Terahertz pulsed spectroscopy of freshly excised human breast cancer

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 12444-12454

  Ashworth, Philip C ^a,b   Pickwell MacPherson, Emma ^c   Provenzano, Elena ^d   Pinder, Sarah E ^e   Purushotham, Anand D ^e   Pepper, Michael ^a,b   Wallace, Vincent P ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TERAVIEW LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; HISTOLOGY; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROMETERS; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; COMPLEX REFRACTIVE INDEX; HUMAN BREAST CANCER; IMPULSE RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; REFLECTION GEOMETRY; TERAHERTZ PULSED IMAGING; TERAHERTZ PULSED SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION SPECTROMETERS;

TISSUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ONCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REFRACTOMETRY; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 67749129307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012444     Document Type: Article

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