In vivo breast imaging with diffuse optical tomography based on higher-order diffusion equations

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 3163-3169

  Xu, Yong ^a   Gu, Xuejun ^a   Fajardo, Laurie L ^b   Jiang, Huabei ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BREAST; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

DIFFUSION; SCATTERING; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0037871959     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.003163     Document Type: Article

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