Improving skin Raman spectral quality by fluorescence photobleaching

Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 299-302

  Wang, Hequn ^a,b   Zhao, Jianhua ^a,b   Lee, Anthony M D ^a,b   Lui, Harvey ^a,b   Zeng, Haishan ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fluorescence photobleaching; Skin; Tissue Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLEACHING; FOREHEAD; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LASER; NOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN;

HUMANS; PHOTOBLEACHING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SKIN; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84870385382     PISSN: 15721000     EISSN: 18731597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pdpdt.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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