Absorptivity contrast in transillumination imaging of tissue abnormalities

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1767-1774

  Gandjbakhche, A H ^a   Bonner, R F ^a,b   Nossal, R ^a   Weiss, G H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Detectability; Optical contrast; Optical imaging; Random walks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000808164     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.001767     Document Type: Article

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