Effect of lateral boundaries on contrast functions in time-resolved transillumination measurements

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1822-1831

  Chernomordik, Victor ^a   Gandjbakhche, Amir H ^a   Hebden, Jeremy C ^b   Zaccanti, Giovanni ^c  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contrast functions; Monte Carlo simulations; Quantitative imaging; Random walk; Time resolved transillumination

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EXTRAPOLATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TRANSILLUMINATION;

CONTRAST FUNCTIONS; LATERAL BOUNDARY; METHOD OF IMAGES; PHOTON TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; RANDOM WALK; RANDOM WALK MODELING; TIME-RESOLVED;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032881009     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598687     Document Type: Article

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