Spatial deconvolution technique to improve the accuracy of reconstructed three-dimensional diffuse optical tomographic images

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 941-953

  Graber, Harry L ^a   Xu, Yong ^a,b   Pei, Yaling ^a,b   Barbour, Randall L ^b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NIRx Medical Technologies LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMAL MAPPING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY (DOT); NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE METHOD (NDM); PERTURBATION EQUATIONS; SPATIAL DECONVOLUTION TECHNIQUE;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 14844314115     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.000941     Document Type: Article

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