Hypericin fluorescence imaging of oral cancer: From endoscopy to real-time 3-dimensional endomicroscopy

Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 139-143

  Thong, Patricia S P ^a   Olivo, Malini C ^a,b,c,d   Movania, Muhammad Mobeen ^e   Tandjung, Stephanus S ^e   Seah, Hock Soon ^e   Lin, Feng ^e   Qian, Kemao ^e   Soo, Khee Chee ^a  

^a DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Endomicroscopy; Endoscopy; Fluorescence imaging; Hypericin; Image processing; Oral cancer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863974403     PISSN: 21567018     EISSN: 21567026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jmihi.2011.1020     Document Type: Article

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