Measurement of the optical properties of skin using terahertz time-domain spectroscopic techniques

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7562, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wilmink, Gerald J ^a,b   Ibey, Bennett L ^a   Tongue, Thomas ^c   Schulkin, Brian ^c   Peralta, Xomalin ^d   Rivest, Benjamin D ^a   Haywood, Eric C ^a   Roach, William P ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^c ZOMEGA TERAHERTZ CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications; Optical properties; Terahertz; THz; Tissue

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; INDEX OF REFRACTION; OPTICAL PENETRATION DEPTH; PORCINE SKIN; SKIN CANCERS; SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUE; SPECTROSCOPY APPLICATIONS; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THZ; THZ FREQUENCIES; THZ RADIATION; THZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; TIME DOMAIN; TISSUE INTERACTIONS;

ABSORPTION; HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROSCOPY; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 77951680624     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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