Analytical solution for light propagation in a two-layer tissue structure with a tilted interface for breast imaging

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 5027-5036

  Das, Mini ^a   Xu, Chen ^a   Zhu, Quing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; REFLECTION; TISSUE CULTURE;

BREAST IMAGING; TILTED INTERFACE; TWO-LAYER TISSUE STRUCTURE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BREAST; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 33748459109     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.005027     Document Type: Article

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