In situ structural and microangiographic assessment of human skin lesions with high-speed OCT

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2636-2646

  Blatter, Cedric ^a   Weingast, Jessika ^a   Alex, Aneesh ^a   Grajciar, Branislav ^a   Wieser, Wolfgang ^b   Drexler, Wolfgang ^a   Huber, Robert ^b   Leitgeb, Rainer A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DERMATOLOGY;

BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BESSEL BEAM; CONTRAST IMAGING; HIGH-SPEED; HUMAN SKIN; IN-SITU; IN-VIVO; INTENSITY DIFFERENCE; METABOLIC DEMANDS; MICROVASCULAR; SKIN SURFACES; SWEPT SOURCE OCT; VASCULAR PATTERNS;

SKIN;

EID: 84867259184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.3.002636     Document Type: Article

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