Recovery of optical cross-section perturbations in dense-scattering media by transport-theory-based imaging operators and steady-state simulated data

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 3963-3978

  Chang, Jenghwa ^a,b   Graber, Harry L ^a,b   Aronson, Raphael ^c  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Pathology ^*  (United States)

^c Bioimaging Sciences Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Dense scattering medium; Ill posed; Inverse problem; Perturbation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001315775     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.003963     Document Type: Article

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