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ArticleOptics letters2014

What structural length scales can be detected by the spectral variance of a microscope image?

Lusik Cherkezyan, Hariharan Subramanian, Vadim Backman

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Article in Optics letters, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lusik Cherkezyan
Hariharan Subramanian
Vadim Backman
Northwestern University · US

Funding

Novel Biophotonics Methodology for Colon Cancer ScreeningR01CA128641 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI BACKMAN, VADIM · 2008 to 2012
$7.3M
Optical Nanoscale Analysis of Buccal Cells: Transforming Lung Cancer ScreeningR01CA155284 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI BACKMAN, VADIM, ROY, HEMANT K. · 2011 to 2014
$2.3M
Mechanisms of Light Scattering in Living TissuesR01EB003682 · NIBIB · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI BACKMAN, VADIM, PRADHAN, PRABHAKAR · 2005 to 2013
$2.2M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA128641NCI NIH HHS R01CA128641NCI NIH HHS R01 CA155284NCI NIH HHS R01CA155284NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB003682NIBIB NIH HHS R01EB003682
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A spectroscopic microscope, configured to detect interference spectra of backscattered light in the far zone, quantifies the statistics of refractive-index (RI) distribution via the spectral variance (Σ˜

Indexed as

Image Interpretation, Computer-AssistedMicroscopyNanostructuresReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificitySpectrum Analysis

Identifiers

PMID25078159
PMCPMC4317340
OpenAlexW2004923503

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