Evaluation of optical clearing with the combined liquid paraffin and glycerol mixture

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2329-2338

  Wang, Jingyi ^a   Liang, Yanmei ^a   Zhang, Shu ^a   Zhou, Yueqiao ^b   Ni, Haiyang ^c   Li, Yan ^c  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PARAFFINS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEEP LAYER; ENHANCEMENT EFFECTS; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; LIQUID PARAFFINS; OPTICAL CLEARING; PENETRATION ENHANCERS; PERCUTANEOUS PENETRATION;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84865598373     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.2.002329     Document Type: Article

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