Study of water concentration measurement in thin tissues with terahertz-wave parametric source

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 15504-15512

  Wang, Yuye ^a   Minamide, Hiroaki ^a   Tang, Ming ^a   Notake, Takashi ^a   Ito, Hiromasa ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; MEASUREMENTS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE; WATER CONTENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BIOTISSUES; MEASURING ERRORS; SAMPLE THICKNESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERA HERTZ; THZ FREQUENCIES; TWO DIMENSIONAL MAPPING; WATER CONCENTRATIONS; WATER CONTENT MEASUREMENTS;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

WATER;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SUS SCROFA; WATER;

EID: 77954940540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015504     Document Type: Article

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