Compact high power barium nitrite crystal-based Raman laser at 1197 nm for photoacoustic imaging of fat

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Li, Rui ^a   Slipchenko, Mikhail N ^a   Wang, Pu ^a   Cheng, Ji Xin ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

lipid; molecular vibration; photoacoustic imaging; Raman laser; stimulated Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MECHANISM; INTRAMUSCULAR FATS; MOLECULAR OVERTONE; ND : YAG LASERS; OVERTONE TRANSITION; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PUMPING SOURCE; RAMAN LASERS;

BARIUM; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LIPIDS; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

BARIUM DERIVATIVE; FAT; NITRITE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; GOAT; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MUSCLE; PHOTOACOUSTICS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SOLID STATE LASER;

ANIMALS; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; FATS; GOATS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MUSCLES; NITRITES; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84879760807     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.18.4.040502     Document Type: Article

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