Optical tomography with early arriving photons: Sensitivity and resolution analysis

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4250, Issue , 2001, Pages 37-44

  Nan Guang Chen, ^a   Zhu, Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTON DENSITY WAVES;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034872257     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.434507     Document Type: Conference Paper

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