Fast 3-D optical imaging with transient fluorescence signals

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 449-457

  Quan, Haiyong ^a   Guo, Zhixiong ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS; DYES; FLUORESCENCE; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LASER PULSES; LASERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; RADIATION; TUMORS;

DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY (DOT); DISCRETE-ORDINATES METHODS (DOM); OPTICAL IMAGING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION (RTE);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 2942724476     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.000449     Document Type: Article

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