In vivo terahertz imaging of rat skin burns

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Tewari, Priyamvada ^a   Kealey, Colin P ^b   Bennett, David B ^a   Bajwa, Neha ^a   Barnett, Kelli S ^b   Singh, Rahul S ^a,b   Culjat, Martin O ^a,b   Stojadinovic, Alexander ^c   Grundfest, Warren S ^a,b   Taylor, Zachary D ^a  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical optics; Medical imaging; Reflection; Terahertz; Tissues

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BURN; HISTOLOGY; LETTER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TERAHERTZ IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BURNS; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TERAHERTZ IMAGING;

EID: 84860376182     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.17.4.040503     Document Type: Article

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