Time-of-flight non-contact fluorescence diffuse optical tomography with numerical constant fraction discrimination

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6629, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bérubé Lauzière, Yves ^a   Robichaud, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffuse optical tomography; Fluorescence; Numerical constant fraction discrimination; Time point spread functions; Time correlated single photon counting; Time domain; Time of flight

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FLUORESCENCE DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY (FDOT) APPROACH; NUMERICAL CONSTANT; TIME-OF-FLIGHT APPROACH; WITH NUMERICAL CONSTANT FRACTION DISCRIMINATION;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 36248943061     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/ecbo.2007.6629_34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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