Use of a nonlinear perturbation approach for in vivo breast lesion characterization by multi-wavelength time-resolved optical mammography

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 853-867

  Torricelli, Alessandro ^a   Spinelli, Lorenzo ^a   Pifferi, Antonio ^a   Taroni, Paola ^a   Cubeddu, Rinaldo ^a   Danesini, Gian Maria ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Clinica S Pio X   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; HEMOGLOBIN; INCLUSIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIPIDS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATHOLOGY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS; X RAYS;

OPTICAL PATHOLOGY; PHOTON MIGRATION; TIME-RESOLVED IMAGING; TISSUE DIAGNOSTICS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 1942455629     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000853     Document Type: Article

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