Polarimetric imaging of subsurface tissue - Numerical results

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Sudha, Gnanou F ^a   Palanivelu, Theerta G ^a  

^a PONDICHERRY ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Backscattering; Light propagation in tissue; Medical imaging; Polarimetric imaging

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SOURCES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; POLARIMETERS; TISSUE;

IMAGE SUBTRACTION; POLARIMETRIC IMAGING; SOURCE ILLUMINATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 33645454603     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2060714     Document Type: Article

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