Accuracy and noise in optical Doppler tomography studied by Monte Carlo simulation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3045-3064

  Lindmo, Tore ^a,b   Smithies, Derek J ^b   Chen, Zhongping ^b   Nelson, J Stuart ^b   Milner, Thomas E ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; LIGHT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031667764     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/10/025     Document Type: Article

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