A compact fiber-optic SHG scanning endomicroscope and its application to visualize cervical remodeling during pregnancy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 32, 2012, Pages 12878-12883

  Zhang, Yuying ^a   Akins, Meredith L ^b,c   Murari, Kartikeya ^a   Xi, Jiefeng ^a   Li, Ming Jun ^d   Luby Phelps, Katherine ^c   Mahendroo, Mala ^b,c   Li, Xingde ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical collagen remodeling; Fiber optic scanning probe; Nonlinear endomicroscopy; Parturition

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; FIBER OPTIC SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION SCANNING ENDOMICROSCOPE; FIBEROSCOPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEDICAL DEVICE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; UTERINE CERVIX;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CERVIX UTERI; COLLAGEN; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; MICE; PREGNANCY;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 84864672237     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1121495109     Document Type: Article

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