Optical tomography using the SCIRun problem solving environment: Preliminary results for three-dimensional geometries and parallel processing

Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 263-269

  Schweiger, Martin ^a   Zhukov, Leonid ^b   Arridge, Simon R ^a   Johnson, Christopher R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING; TIME RESOLVED OPTICAL ABSORPTION AND SCATTERING TOMOGRAPHY (TOAST); TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE PROCESSING;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0000035370     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.4.000263     Document Type: Article

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