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