Vibrational spectroscopic imaging of living systems: An emerging platform for biology and medicine

Science

Volumn 350, Issue 6264, 2015, Pages

  Cheng, Ji Xin ^a   Xie, X Sunney ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE TREATMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD; MEDICINE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MEDICINE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; VELOCITY; VIBRATION; VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY; 3T3 CELL LINE; ANIMAL; GAS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

GAS;

3T3-L1 CELLS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGY; GASES; HUMANS; MEDICINE; MICE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; VIBRATION;

EID: 84948454219     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa8870     Document Type: Article

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