Tomographic image reconstruction from optical projections in light-diffusing media

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 180-213

  Colak, S B ^b   Papaioannou, D G ^b   Hooft, G W ^b   van der Mark, M B ^b   Schomberg, H ^a,b   Paasschens, J C J ^b   Melissen, J B M ^b   van Asten, N A A J ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION; FOURIER OPTICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE;

BACKPROJECTION; DEBLURRING; DECONVOLUTION; DIFFUSE OPTICAL IMAGING; FAN BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PARALLEL BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0030837266     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000180     Document Type: Article

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