Mesh-based enhancement schemes in diffuse optical tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 861-869

  Gu, Xuejun ^a   Xu, Yong ^a   Jiang, Huabei ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MESH GENERATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ABSORPTION AND SCATTERINGS; AUTOMATIC MESH REFINEMENTS; DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; HETEROGENEOUS TURBID MEDIA; MESH-BASED METHODS; OPTICAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTON PROPAGATION; TISSUE-LIKE PHANTOM;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ABSORPTION; ADAPTIVE MESHING; ARTICLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; DUAL MESHING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SCATTERING; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TOMOGRAPHY; TURBIDITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0038248777     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1566389     Document Type: Article

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