Effects of refractive index on near-infrared tomography of the breast

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1870-1878

  Dehghani, Hamid ^a   Brooksby, Ben A ^a   Pogue, Brian W ^a   Paulsen, Keith D ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DIFFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST TISSUES; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DIFFUSION APPROXIMATION; NEAR-INFRARED (NIR) OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 16644368107     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001870     Document Type: Conference Paper

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