Near-infrared fluorescence contrast-enhanced imaging with area illumination and area detection: The forward imaging problem

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 4125-4136

  Thompson, Alan B ^a   Hawrysz, Daniel J ^a,b   Sevick Muraca, Eva M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MODULATION; PHOTONS; TISSUE;

FORWARD IMAGING PROBLEM;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION SCATTERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 0037819969     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004125     Document Type: Article

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