Analytic Expressions for Determining the Concentrations of Absorber in Turbid Media by Time-Gating Measurements

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 67-72

  Tsuchiya, Yutaka ^a   Ueda, Yukio ^a   Zhang, Hedong ^a   Yamashita, Yutaka ^a   Oda, Motoki ^a   Urakami, Tsuneyuki ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical computed tomography; Photon migration; Quantitation of absorber concentration; Tissue imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; TURBIDITY;

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; BEER LAMBERT LAW; OPTICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATHLENGTHS; PHOTON MIGRATION; QUANTITATION OF ABSORBER CONCENTRATION; RE-EMISSION; TIME GATING; TISSUE IMAGING; TURBID MEDIA;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 0004237674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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