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Optical Imaging

"Optical Imaging" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Optical Imaging" by people in this website by year, and whether "Optical Imaging" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 43 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2018
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