Terahertz sensing of corneal hydration

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3021-3024

  Singh, Rahul S ^a,b   Tewari, Priyamvada ^b   Bourges, Jean Louis ^a   Hubschman, Jean Pierre ^a   Bennett, David B ^c   Taylor, Zachary D ^b   Lee, H ^d   Brown, Elliott R ^e   Grundfest, Warren S ^a,c   Culjat, Martin O ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

^e Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORNEAL GRAFTS; CORNEAL TISSUES; EX-VIVO; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HYDRATION LEVELS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAXIMUM-SNR; OCULAR TISSUE; PORCINE CORNEAS; PUMP FUNCTION; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ SENSING; THICKNESS VARIATION; THZ TECHNOLOGY;

HISTOLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PUMPS; WATER CONTENT;

HYDRATION;

POLYPROPYLENE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WATER; CHEMISTRY; CORNEA; CORNEA DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFLAMMATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SWINE; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; VISION;

ANIMALS; BODY WATER; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFLAMMATION; POLYPROPYLENES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWINE; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 78650818806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626146     Document Type: Conference Paper

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