Ultraviolet and visible spectroscopies for tissue diagnostics: fluorescence spectroscopy and elastic-scattering spectroscopy

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, , Citation Irving J Bigio and Judith R Mourant 1997 Phys. Med. Biol. 42 803 DOI 10.1088/0031-9155/42/5/005

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1 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience and Biotechnology, MS-E535, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA

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  1. Received 31 May 1996

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Abstract

We review the application of fluorescence spectroscopy and elastic-scattering spectroscopy, over the ultraviolet-to-visible wavelength range, to minimally invasive medical diagnostics. The promises and hopes, as well as the difficulties, of these developing techniques are discussed.

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