Characterizing the origin of autofluorescence in human esophageal epithelium under ultraviolet excitation

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 21074-21082

  Lin, Bevin ^a,b   Urayama, Shiro ^c   Saroufeem, Ramez M G ^c   Matthews, Dennis L ^a,b   Demos, Stavros G ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VISUALIZATION;

AUTO FLUORESCENCES; ESOPHAGEAL EPITHELIAL CELLS; IMAGE CONTRASTS; MICROSCOPY IMAGES; MULTI-SPECTRAL; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; PENETRATION DEPTH; STRUCTURAL IMAGING; SUB-CELLULAR; SUPERFICIAL TISSUES; ULTRA VIOLET EXCITATION; WIDE-FIELD;

AMINO ACIDS;

COLLAGEN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BIOPSY; CHEMISTRY; EPITHELIUM; ESOPHAGUS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MUCOSA; OPTICS; PATHOLOGY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BIOPSY; COLLAGEN; EPITHELIUM; ESOPHAGUS; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NAD; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; TRYPTOPHAN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 77958016152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021074     Document Type: Article

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