Three-dimensional tumor localization in thick tissue with the use of diffuse photon-density waves

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 214-220

  Matson, Charles L ^a   Clark, Natalie ^a   McMackin, Lenore ^a   Fender, Janet S ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0001057499     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000214     Document Type: Article

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