Imaging of highly turbid media by the absorption method

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 2315-2324

  Contini, Daniele ^a   Liszka, Heather ^a   Sassaroli, Angelo ^a   Zaccanti, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Absorption method; Imaging; Spatial resolution; Time gating; Turbid media

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HELIUM NEON LASERS; IMAGE QUALITY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; TISSUE;

EDGE RESPONSE FUNCTION; LINE SPREAD FUNCTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL POINT SPREAD FUNCTION; TIME GATING; TURBID MEDIA;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0030151117     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.002315     Document Type: Article

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