Average value method: A new approach to practical optical computed tomography for a turbid medium such as human tissue

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 37, Issue 5 A, 1998, Pages 2717-2723

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

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Average optical properties; Imaginary reference; Mean path length; Quantitation of absorber concentration; Reconstruction algorithm; Reference phantom free method; Weight function

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHT; MEASUREMENTS; MODELS; OPTICS; TISSUE;

REFERENCE PHANTOM FREE METHOD;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032068592     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.37.2717     Document Type: Article

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