Transport- and diffusion-based optical tomography in small domains: A comparative study

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 27, 2007, Pages 6669-6679

  Ren, Kui ^a   Bal, Guillaume ^a   Hielscher, Andreas H ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

DIFFUSION EXTRAPOLATION; NOISE-FREE DATA; OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 36949032954     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.006669     Document Type: Article

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