Deep illumination angular domain imaging within highly scattering media enhanced by image processing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6380, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Vasefi, Fartash ^a   Chan, Paulman K Y ^a   Kaminska, Bozena ^a   Chapman, Glenn H ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angular domain imaging; Angular filter; Deep illumination; Image processing; Lasers; Optical tomography; Silicon Micromachined Collimating Array (smca); Tissue optics

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHTING; MICROMACHINING; OPTICAL FILTERS;

ANGULAR DOMAIN IMAGING; ANGULAR FILTERS; DEEP ILLUMINATION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SILICON MICROMACHINED COLLIMATING ARRAY (SMCA); TISSUE OPTICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33846223396     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.686428     Document Type: Conference Paper

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