Imaging of in vitro and in vivo bones and joints with continuous-wave diffuse optical tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 447-451

  Xu, Yong ^a   Iftimia, Nicusor ^a   Jiang, Huabei ^a   Key, L Lyndon ^b   Bolster, Marcy B ^c  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY (DOT); LIGHT PROPAGATION IN TISSUES; OPTICAL IMAGERS; SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0000833453     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.8.000447     Document Type: Article

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