Ultraviolet and visible spectroscopies for tissue diagnostics: fluorescence spectroscopy and elastic-scattering spectroscopy.
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.
Bigio
I J
IJ
Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM 87545, USA.
Mourant
J R
JR
D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008027:Light; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays