Experimental test of a perturbation model for time-resolved imaging in diffusive media

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 3145-3153

  Spinelli, Lorenzo ^a   Torricelli, Alessandro ^a   Pifferi, Antonio ^a   Taroni, Paola ^a   Cubeddu, Rinaldo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFUSION; EXTRAPOLATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SCATTERING;

DIFFUSION APPROXIMATION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR, SUBCELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0038548279     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.003145     Document Type: Article

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