Iterative reconstruction scheme for optical tomography based on the equation of radiative transfer

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1698-1707

  Klose, Alexander D ^a   Hielscher, Andreas H ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint differentiation; Discrete ordinates; Equation of radiative transfer; Finite difference; Inverse problems; Optical tomography; Turbid media; Upwind scheme

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TURBIDITY;

ADJOINTS; DISCRETE ORDINATES; EQUATION OF RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TURBID MEDIA; UP-WIND SCHEME;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENERGY TRANSFER; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032779242     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598661     Document Type: Article

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