Direct calculation with a finite-element method of the laplace transform of the distribution of photon time of flight in tissue

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 34, 1997, Pages 9042-9049

  Schweiger, Martin ^a   Arridge, Simon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion equation; Finite element method; Laplace transform; Temporal filtering

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444384251     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.009042     Document Type: Article

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