Signal dependence and noise source in ultrasound-modulated optical tomography

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1320-1326

  Yao, Gang ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Texas A M University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

OPTICAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND MODULATED OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 1542366618     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.001320     Document Type: Article

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