Hollow-fiber-based flexible probe for remote measurement of infrared attenuated total reflection

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 28, 2009, Pages 5396-5400

  Matsuura, Yuji ^a   Kino, Saiko ^a   Katagiri, Takashi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTIONS; CLINICAL APPLICATION; DURABLE MATERIALS; FLEXIBLE PROBES; HOLLOW FIBER; HOLLOW OPTICAL FIBERS; IN-VIVO; REMOTE MEASUREMENT;

PROBES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 70349684321     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.005396     Document Type: Article

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