Development of a time-domain optical mammograph and first in vivo applications

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2927-2943

  Grosenick, Dirk ^a   Wabnitz, Heidrun ^a   Rinneberg, Herbert H ^a   Moesta, K Thomas ^b   Moesta, Peter M ^b  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER-PULSE MAMMOGRAPHY; LIGHT ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; PHOTON DENSITY WAVES;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032614599     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.002927     Document Type: Article

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