Optical imaging of turbid media using independent component analysis: Theory and simulation

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Xu, M ^a   Alrubaiee, M ^a   Gayen, S K ^a   Alfano, R R ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption; Diffusion; Image processing; Image reconstruction; Inverse Problems; Medical imaging; Radiative transfer; Scattering

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMETRY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BIOPOLYMERS; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; INFORMATION THEORY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCATTERING;

MULTIDETECTOR SIGNAL ACQUISITION SCHEME; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 27644522044     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2101568     Document Type: Article

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