Optical tomography in the presence of void regions

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1659-1670

  Dehghani, Hamid ^a   Arridge, Simon R ^a   Schweiger, Martin ^a   Delpy, David T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BRAIN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; TISSUE;

RADIOSITY-DIFFUSION MODEL;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0000475817     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.17.001659     Document Type: Article

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