Optical clearing for OCT image enhancement and in-depth monitoring of molecular diffusion

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1244-1259

  Larin, Kirill V ^a   Ghosn, Mohamad G ^b   Bashkatov, Alexey N ^c   Genina, Elina A ^c   Trunina, Natalia A ^c   Tuchin, Valery V ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Molecular diffusion; optical clearing; optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

BASIC PRINCIPLES; BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; NON-INVASIVE ASSESSMENTS; OPTICAL CLEARING;

DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; HISTOLOGY; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE;

DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS;

EID: 84862290677     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2181991     Document Type: Review

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