Sub-millimeter resolution 3D optical imaging of living tissue using laminar optical tomography

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 159-179

  Hillman, Elizabeth M C ^a   Burgess, Sean A ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological and medical applications; Image reconstruction; Optical system design; Tomography; Wave propagation in random media

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449135351     PISSN: 18638880     EISSN: 18638899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.200810031     Document Type: Article

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