A review of attenuation correction techniques for tissue fluorescence

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1-13

  Bradley, Robert S ^a   Thorniley, Maureen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absorption; Correction techniques; Scattering; Tissue fluorescence

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ATTENUATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FLUORESCENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NOMENCLATURE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PHOTON; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REVIEW; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 33747121341     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2005.0066     Document Type: Review

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