Conference Proceedings

Multi-harmonic generation biopsy of skin

CC Chen, SW Chu, IH Chen, CK Sun, YC Chen, BL Lin

Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO - Technical Digest | Published : 2003

DOI: 10.1109/CLEOPR.2003.1274815

Abstract

Avoiding the on-focus photodamage and phototoxicity problem of two-photon-fluorescence excitation, harmonic generation biopsy based on a ∼1300 nm light source provides a truly non-invasive and highly penetrative optical sectioning of skin.