Optical computed tomography in a turbid medium using early arriving photons

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 144-154

  Chen, Kun ^a   Perelman, Lev T ^a   Zhang, Qingguo ^a   Dasari, Ramachandra R ^a   Feld, Michael S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; GREEN'S FUNCTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTONS; TISSUE;

OPTICAL COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; POLYSTYRENES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034164348     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.429981     Document Type: Article

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