Mid-infrared fiber-coupled photoacoustic sensor for biomedical applications

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 535-549

  Kottmann, Jonas ^a   Grob, Urs ^a   Rey, Julien M ^a   Sigrist, Markus W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Glucose; Photoacoustic; Quantum cascade laser; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOMEDICAL DEVICES; DEGREE OF FLEXIBILITY; FIBER-COUPLED SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC; PHOTOACOUSTIC SENSORS; SILVER HALIDE FIBERS;

GLUCOSE; INFRARED DEVICES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SENSORS; SILVER HALIDES; SPECTROSCOPY;

FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER; GLUCOSE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKIN; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; VIBRATION;

ABSORPTION; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN; SOLUTIONS; VIBRATION;

EID: 84872813397     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130100535     Document Type: Article

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