Terahertz pulsed imaging of knee cartilage

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 967-974

  Kan, Wai Chi ^a   Lee, Win Sze ^a   Cheung, Wing Hoi ^a   Wallace, Vincent P ^b   Pickwell MacPherson, Emma ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TISSUE;

ANIMAL MODEL; FEMORAL CONDYLES; OPTICAL DELAY; PULSED IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ PULSED IMAGING; THZ WAVES;

CARTILAGE;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 84862958625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.1.000967     Document Type: Article

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