Deconvolution-based spatial resolution in optical diffusion tomography

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 31, 2001, Pages 5791-5801

  Matson, Charles L ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL DIFFUSION TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0038159844     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.005791     Document Type: Article

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