Quantum dot superluminescent diodes for optical coherence tomography: Skin imaging

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 748-754

  Krstajić, Nikola ^a   Smith, Louise E ^a   Matcher, Stephen John ^a   Childs, David T D ^a   Bonesi, Marco ^a,b   Greenwood, Purnima Daisy Lydia ^a   Hugues, Maxime ^a   Kennedy, Kenneth ^a   Hopkinson, Mark ^a   Groom, Kristian Michael ^a   MacNeil, Sheila ^a   Hogg, Richard A ^a   Smallwood, Rod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Optical coherence tomography (OCT); skin imaging; superluminescent diodes; tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE; DEPTH PENETRATION; HIGH-POWER; IMAGING PROPERTIES; IN-VIVO; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POWER SOURCES; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM DOT SUPERLUMINESCENT DIODES; SKIN IMAGING; SKIN LAYER; SUPERLUMINESCENT DIODE; SUPERLUMINESCENT DIODES; TIME DOMAIN;

COHERENT LIGHT; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TOMOGRAPHY;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 77955516866     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2038597     Document Type: Article

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