Noise pre-filtering techniques in fluorescence-enhanced optical tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 11285-11300

  Zhu, B ^a   Eppstein, M J ^b   Sevick Muraca, E M ^c   Godavarty, A ^a  

^a The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b University of Vermont   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; OPTICAL FILTERS;

BREAST PHANTOMS; OPTICAL CONTRAST; PRE-FILTERING TECHNIQUES;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34548456891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011285     Document Type: Article

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