Three-dimensional imaging of a tissuelike phantom by diffusion optical tomography

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 34, 2001, Pages 6349-6355

  Ueda, Yukio ^a   Ohta, Kazuyoshi ^a   Oda, Motoki ^a   Miwa, Mitsuharu ^a   Tsuchiya, Yutaka ^a   Yamashita, Yutaka ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHOTONS; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

PHOTON COUNTING SYSTEM;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0013286656     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.006349     Document Type: Article

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