Coherent detection techniques in optical imaging of tissues

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 855-867

  Chan, Kin Pui ^a   Devaraj, B ^a   Yamada, Makoto ^a   Inaba, Humio ^a,b  

^a Biophotonics Info Laboratories   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0002320862     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/42/5/009     Document Type: Article

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