Terahertz spectroscopy of liver cirrhosis: investigating the origin of contrast.

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Published in Phys Med Biol on November 19, 2010

Authors

Stanley Sy1, Shengyang Huang, Yi-Xiang J Wang, Jun Yu, Anil T Ahuja, Yuan-Ting Zhang, Emma Pickwell-MacPherson

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Electronic Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

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