An improved reconstruction algorithm for 3-D diffraction tomography using spherical-wave sources

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 517-521

  Anastasio, Mark A ^a   Pan, Xiaochuan ^b  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D imaging; Diffraction tomography; Wavefield inversion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY;

THREE-DIMENSIONAL DIFFRACTION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIFFRACTION TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; REFRACTION INDEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037389301     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2003.809481     Document Type: Article

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