Robust inference of baseline optical properties of the human head with three-dimensional segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 3095-3108

  Barnett, Alex H ^a   Culver, Joseph P ^a   Sorensen, A Gregory ^a   Dale, Anders ^a   Boas, David A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; HEAD; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICS; SCALP; SKULL; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; SCALP; SKULL;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ERROR ANALYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROLOGY; TISSUE;

ROBUST INFERENCE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0038209516     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.003095     Document Type: Article

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