University of Arizona Biomedical Engineering  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Angiogenesis and the Extracellular Matrix
In vitro Tissue Model for Optical Imaging of Ovary  
Optical imaging as Biomarker to study the Modulation Ovarian Cancer using Fenretinide and Oral Contraceptives  
Comprehensive Program for Early Detection of
Female Genital Tract Abnormalities
 
Optimized Visual Examination of Cancer  
 
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Laboratory in Tissue Spectroscopy and Bio-Signatures


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Acetic acid as a signal enhancing contrast agent in fluorescence spectroscopy, Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Anant Agrawal, Costas Pitris, Urs Utzinger, Carrie Brookner, Michele Follen Mitchell, U.S. 6,241,662 June 2001, European patent application 98953808.7-2112, 1998.

Combined fluorescence and reflectance spectroscopy, Urs Utzinger, Anthony Durkin, Holger Fuchs, Ann M. Gillenwater, Douglas Heintzelman, Rebecca Richards-Kortum, U.S. 6,571,118, 2003.

Methods and apparatus for polarized reflectance spectroscopy, Konstantin Sokolov, Rebekah Drezek, Urs Utzinger, Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum, U. S. 6,639,674, 2003.

Method and apparatus for the characterization of tissue of epithelial lined viscus, Urs Utzinger, Michele Follen-Mitchell, Rebecca Richards-Kortum, U.S. Patent 6,697,666 February 24, 2004, Japanese Patent 10-508023, 1999, European Patent 97937053.3-2305, 1996, Canadian Patent 2,264,860, 1999.

Method and apparatus for diagnostic multispectral digital imaging, Urs Utzinger, Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Calum MacAulay, Michele Follen, U.S. Patent 6,766,184, 2004.