Hybrid radiative-transfer-diffusion model for optical tomography

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 876-886

  Tarvainen, Tanja ^a   Vauhkonen, Marko ^a   Kolehmainen, Ville ^a   Kaipio, Jari P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFUSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

DIRICHLET BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LASER SOURCES; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATIVE-TRANSFER EQUATION;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DIFFUSION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DIFFUSION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 14844328057     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.000876     Document Type: Article

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