Point spread functions of photons in time-resolved transillumination experiments using simple scaling arguments

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1857-1861

  Chernomordik, Victor ^a   Nossal, Ralph ^a   Gandjbakhche, Amir H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTONS; TRANSILLUMINATION;

CONSTANT SCALING; DIFFERENT PLANES; DIFFUSE MEDIA; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; PHOTON TRANSPORT; SCATTERING ANISOTROPY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME-RESOLVED;

IMAGE RESOLUTION;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING;

EID: 0029826199     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597748     Document Type: Article

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