Accuracy of the nonlinear fitting procedure for time-resolved measurements on diffusive phantoms at NIR wavelengths

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7174, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Spinelli, Lorenzo ^a   Martelli, Fabrizio ^b   Farina, Andrea ^a   Pifferi, Antonio ^a   Torricelli, Alessandro ^a   Cubeddu, Rinaldo ^a   Zaccanti, Giovanni ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Fisica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Medical optics instrumentation; Photon migration; Spectroscopy, tissue diagnostics; Turbid media

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; DIFFUSIVE MEDIAS; INSTRUMENT RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; INVERSION PROCEDURES; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT ALGORITHMS; LINEAR INVERSIONS; MEDICAL OPTICS INSTRUMENTATION; MONTE CARLO; NIR WAVELENGTHS; NON-LINEAR; NON-LINEAR FITTINGS; PHOTON COUNTS; PHOTON MIGRATION; RADIATIVE TRANSPORT EQUATIONS; REDUCED SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; REFLECTANCE GEOMETRIES; SOLID SAMPLES; SPECTROSCOPY, TISSUE DIAGNOSTICS; TEMPORAL SAMPLINGS; TIME-DOMAIN MEASUREMENTS; TIME-RESOLVED MEASUREMENTS; TURBID MEDIA;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSTRUMENTS; LIGHT; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTONS; TURBIDITY;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 65349102188     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.808997     Document Type: Conference Paper

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