 Optical Imaging
"Optical Imaging" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The use of light interaction (scattering, absorption, and fluorescence) with biological tissue to obtain morphologically based information. It includes measuring inherent tissue optical properties such as scattering, absorption, and autofluorescence; or optical properties of exogenous targeted fluorescent molecular probes such as those used in optical MOLECULAR IMAGING, or nontargeted optical CONTRAST AGENTS.
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D061848
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.350.589 E05.642
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