3D optical coherence tomography for clinical diagnosis of nonmelanoma skin cancers

Imaging in Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 653-674

  Alex, Aneesh ^a   Weingast, Jessika ^b   Hofer, Bernd ^a   Eibl, Matthias ^a   Binder, Michael ^b   Pehamberger, Hubert ^b   Drexler, Wolfgang ^a   Považay, Boris ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

Author keywords

cancer diagnosis; contrast enhanced imaging; dermatology; functional imaging; microscopy; multimodal imaging; optical coherence tomography; optical imaging; tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 82955205908     PISSN: 17555191     EISSN: 17555205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/iim.11.62     Document Type: Review

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