Error assessment of a wavelength tunable frequency domain system for noninvasive tissue spectroscopy

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 311-323

  Pogue, Brian W ^a,b   Patterson, Michael S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion theory; Frequency domain; Noninvasive spectroscopy; Tissue optics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000912594     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.240679     Document Type: Article

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