A higher order diffusion model for three-dimensional photon migration and image reconstruction in optical tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-88

  Yuan, Zhen ^a   Hu, Xin Hua ^b   Jiang, Huabei ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; RESTORATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION MODELS; FIRST ORDERS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUMS; HIGHER ORDERS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; PHOTON MIGRATIONS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

DIFFUSION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; FINGER JOINT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 58149250378     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/1/005     Document Type: Article

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