Application of the photon average trajectories method to real-time reconstruction of tissue inhomogeneities in diffuse optical tomography of strongly scattering media

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2109-2128

  Lyubimov, Vladimir V ^a   Kalintsev, Alexander G ^a   Konovalov, Alexander B ^b   Lyamtsev, Oleg V ^b   Kravtsenyuk, Olga V ^a   Murzin, Alexander G ^a   Golubkina, Olga V ^b   Mordvinov, Gennadiy B ^b   Soms, Leonid N ^a   Yavorskaya, Luydmila M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR LASER PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

PHOTON AVERAGE TRAJECTORIES (PAT);

PHOTONS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; SIMULATION; TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS;

EID: 0037150466     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/12/308     Document Type: Article

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