The effects of internal refractive index variation in near-infrared optical tomography: A finite element modelling approach

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 2713-2727

  Dehghani, Hamid ^a   Brooksby, Ben ^a   Vishwanath, Karthik ^b   Pogue, Brian W ^a   Paulsen, Keith D ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TISSUE;

NEAR-INFRARED (NIR) TOMOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEAR INFRARED OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; REFRACTION INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFRARED RAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 0042914826     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/16/310     Document Type: Article

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