Time-resolved imaging of solid phantoms for optical mammography

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 221-231

  Grosenick, D ^a   Wabnitz, H ^a   Rinneberg, H ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

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EID: 0000998958     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000221     Document Type: Article

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