Performance of fitting procedures in curved geometry for retrieval of the optical properties of tissue from time-resolved measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 185-197

  Sassaroli, Angelo ^a   Martelli, Fabrizio ^b   Zaccanti, Giovanni ^b   Yamada, Yukio ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CURVE FITTING; GEOMETRY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TISSUE;

TIME-RESOLVED MEASUREMENTS;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0037766397     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000185     Document Type: Article

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