Enhanced optical clearing of skin in vivo and optical coherence tomography in-depth imaging

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Wen, Xiang ^a,b   Jacques, Steven L ^c   Tuchin, Valery V ^d,e   Zhu, Dan ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Oregon Health and Science University Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^d SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chemical penetration enhancer; Optical clearing; Optical coherence tomography; Physical massage

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; PROPANEDIOL DERIVATIVE; THIADIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DAZOMET; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; PATHOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAT; SKIN; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MALE; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PERMEABILITY; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SKIN; THIADIAZINES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84868667129     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.17.6.066022     Document Type: Article

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