Detection of circulating melanoma cells in human blood using photoacoustic flowmetry

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 106-109

  Weight, Ryan M ^a   Dale, Paul S ^b   Viator, John A ^c  

^a KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND BIOSCIENCES   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FLOW MEASUREMENT; LASER BEAMS; ONCOLOGY;

BROADBAND ABSORPTION SPECTRA; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DETECTION THRESHOLD; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMAN BLOODS; HUMAN CIRCULATORY SYSTEMS; MELANOMA CELLS;

DERMATOLOGY;

EID: 77950965896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5335145     Document Type: Conference Paper

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