Improving image quality of diffuse optical tomography with a projection-error-based adaptive regularization method

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 12423-12434

  Niu, Haijing ^a   Guo, Ping ^a,b   Ji, Lijun ^c   Zhao, Qing ^c   Jiang, Tianzi ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OBJECT DETECTION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ADAPTIVE REGULARIZATION; BOUNDARY MEASUREMENTS; DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION APPROXIMATIONS; PERIPHERAL REGIONS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION PROCEDURE; REGULARIZATION TECHNIQUE;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 50049099889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012423     Document Type: Article

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