Photon migration in non-scattering tissue and the effects on image reconstruction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2897-2906

  Dehghani, H ^a   Delpy, D T ^a   Arridge, S R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIFFUSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0032800938     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/12/303     Document Type: Article

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