Dual frequency continuous wave terahertz transmission imaging of nonmelanoma skin cancers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7601, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Joseph, Cecil S ^a   Yaroslavsky, Anna N ^b,c   Lagraves, Julie L ^b,c   Goyette, Thomas M ^a   Giles, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous wave terahertz imaging; Skin cancer imaging

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION BAND; CANCER IMAGING; CANCEROUS TISSUES; CONTINUOUS-WAVE TERAHERTZ; CONTINUOUS-WAVE TERAHERTZ IMAGING; DUAL FREQUENCY; FAR-INFRARED; IMAGING EXPERIMENTS; LIQUID HELIUM; MOLECULAR GAS; NONMELANOMA SKIN; NORMAL TISSUE; SILICON BOLOMETERS; SKIN CANCERS; SOURCE MECHANISMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; THZ FREQUENCIES; TRANSMISSION IMAGES; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS; TRANSMITTED SIGNAL;

AMINO ACIDS; GAS ABSORPTION; GAS LASERS; INFRARED LASERS; LASERS; LIQUID LASERS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PUMPING (LASER); SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 77951614976     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.842018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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