Assessment of the effects of ultrasound-mediated alcohols on skin optical clearing

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Xu, Xiangqun ^a   Zhu, Qiuhong ^a   Sun, Chaojie ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

enhancement of epidermal permeability; skin optical clearing; sonophoresis; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BUTANEDIOL; IMAGING DEPTH; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO HUMAN SKIN; LIGHT PENETRATION DEPTH; LIGHT TRANSMITTANCE; OPTICAL CLEARING; PEG-400; PORCINE SKIN; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; SONOPHORESIS; TOPICAL APPLICATION;

GLYCEROL; GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PROPYLENE;

ULTRASONICS;

SUS;

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERMEABILITY; SKIN; SPECTROSCOPY; SWINE;

ALCOHOLS; ANIMALS; LIGHT; PERMEABILITY; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 70349234029     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3156827     Document Type: Article

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