Imaging diffusive media using time-independent and time-harmonic sources: Dependence of image quality on imaging algorithms, target volume, weight matrix, and view angles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2389, Issue , 1995, Pages 448-464

  Chang, Jenghwa ^a   Aronson, Raphael ^b   Graber, Harry L ^c   Barbour, Randall L ^a,c  

^a Departments of Pathology   (United States)

^b Bioimaging Sciences Corporation   (United States)

^c SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTONS; REPAIR; TISSUE; TITRATION;

CHOICE OF PARAMETERS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; COMPUTING SOLUTIONS; CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; DENSE SCATTERING MEDIA; LINEAR PERTURBATIONS; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT; TRANSPORT EQUATION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 11544262845     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.209995     Document Type: Conference Paper

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