Three-dimensional radiative transfer tomography for turbid media

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 189-198

  Cai, W ^a   Xu, M ^a   Alfano, R R ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption and scattering; Forward model; Inverse algorithm; Optical tomography; Photon migration; Radiative transfer equation (RTE)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

BOLTZMANN RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION; INVERSE ALGORITHM; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL RADIATIVE TRANSFER TOMOGRAPHY; TURBID MEDIA;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0242573745     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.813312     Document Type: Article

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