Rare-earth doped particles with tunable infrared emissions for biomedical imaging

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 566-573

  Saders, Bryan van ^a   Al Baroudi, Lara ^a   Tan, Mei Chee ^a,b   Riman, Richard E ^a  

^a Piscataway   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING APPLICATIONS; HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; INFRARED EMISSIONS; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; OPTIMAL CONCENTRATION; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; POLY(VINYL PYRROLIDONE);

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ERBIUM; LUMINANCE; OPTIMIZATION; YTTERBIUM;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84880418039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.000566     Document Type: Article

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