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Optical Fiber Sensors for Biomedical Applications

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Optical-Thermal Response of Laser-Irradiated Tissue

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Optical fiber technology offers a convenient, affordable, safe and effective approach for the delivery and collection of light to and from the tissue region of interest, and has been employed clinically since the 1960s [1]. This chapter discusses and reviews the recent developments in optical fiber sensor technology in the field of biomedicine.

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Acknowledgement

The authors would like to thank Dr. Richard Schwarz from the Richards-Kortum lab at The University of Texas at Austin for providing the derivation of the ball-lens equation.

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  1. Medical Physics Department, Odette Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Lee C.L. Chin

  2. Department of Physics, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada

    William M. Whelan

  3. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Atlantic Veterinary College, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada

    William M. Whelan

  4. Division of Biophysics and Bioimaging, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada

    I. Alex Vitkin

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Chin, L.C., Whelan, W.M., Vitkin, I.A. (2010). Optical Fiber Sensors for Biomedical Applications. In: Welch, A., van Gemert, M. (eds) Optical-Thermal Response of Laser-Irradiated Tissue. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8831-4_17

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