Significance of tissue anisotropy in optical tomography of the infant brain

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1633-1640

  Heiskala, Juha ^a,b,c   Neuvonen, Tuomas ^b,d   Grant, P Ellen ^e   Nissilä, Ilkka ^e  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEONATAL MONITORING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TISSUE;

DIFFUSION TENSOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; INFANT BRAIN; PHOTON MIGRATION; TISSUE ANISOTROPY;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEWBORN; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 34247520662     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.001633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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