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Marina Kochueva1, Varvara Dudenkova2, Sergey Kuznetsov3

  • 1Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy (NNSMA), Department of Oncology, Radiation Therapy, Radiation, Russia.

Journal of Biomedical Optics
|August 24, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
collagencross-polarization optical coherence tomographynonlinear microscopyradiation-induced adverse eventssecond harmonic generation

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