Object localization in the presence of a strong heterogeneous background in fluorescent tomography

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1467-1479

  Mohajerani, Pouyan ^a   Eftekhar, Ali A ^a   Adibi, Ali ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LUMINESCENCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTINUOUS WAVES; OBJECT LOCALIZATION; SIMULATION RESULTS; TARGET OBJECTS;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 50449102434     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.25.001467     Document Type: Article

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