Time-resolved optical imaging of a solid tissue-equivalent phantom

Applied Optics

Volumn 34, Issue 34, 1995, Pages 8038-8047

  Hebden, Jeremy C ^a   Hall, David J ^a   Firbank, Michael ^a   Delpy, David T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedical optics; Time of flight; Time resolved imaging; Tissue optics

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; TISSUE;

BIOMEDICAL OPTICS; HUMAN BREAST TISSUE; RESOLUTION IMAGING; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME RESOLVED IMAGING; TIME-RESOLVED OPTICAL IMAGING; TISSUE OPTIC;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 42149122527     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.34.008038     Document Type: Article

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