Imaging very-low-contrast objects in breastlike scattering media with a time-resolved method

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 28, 1997, Pages 7270-7276

  Hall, David J ^a   Hebden, Jeremy C ^a   Delpy, David T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Time of flight; Time resolved imaging; Tissue optics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001009753     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.007270     Document Type: Article

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