Time Resolved Reflectance of an Optical Pulse from Scattering Bodies with Nonscattering Regions Utilizing the Finite Difference Time Domain Analysis

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1094-1097

  Tanifuji, T ^a   Ohtomo, T ^a   Ohmori, D ^a   Ishikawa, T ^a  

^a KITAMI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffusion equations; FDTD analysis; Optical tomography; Time resolved reflectance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUXES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; FDTD; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; TIME RESOLVED REFLECTANCE;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 1542332380     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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