Signal-to-noise analysis for propagation of laser radiation through a tissue-like medium by diffuse photon-density waves

Laser Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 453-460

  Netz, U J ^a   Hielscher, A H ^b   Scheel, A K ^c   Beuthan, J ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; IONIZING RADIATION; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE;

BIOMEDICAL OPTICAL IMAGING; JOINT DISEASES; NEAR INFRARED (NIR); PHOTON DENSITY WAVES (PDW); RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (RA); VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERS;

LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

EID: 34247168431     PISSN: 1054660X     EISSN: 15556611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1054660X07040238     Document Type: Article

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