Arranging optical fibres for the spatial resolution improvement of topographical images

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 3429-3440

  Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi ^a   Maki, Atsushi ^a   Kadoya, Takuma ^b   Tanikawa, Yukari ^d   Yamada, Yukio ^c,d   Okada, Eiji ^b   Koizumi, Hideaki ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CORRELATION METHODS;

TOPOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 0037152046     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/18/311     Document Type: Article

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