Diffuse optical imaging

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1900, 2009, Pages 3055-3072

  Gibson, Adam ^a   Dehghani, Hamid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedical optics; Diffuse optical imaging; Diffuse optical tomography; Medical imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL OPTICS; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL APPLICATION; DIFFUSE OPTICAL IMAGING; DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL BRAIN IMAGING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; MULTIMODALITY IMAGING; NATURAL EXTENSION; NICHE APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL IMAGING; PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH; SMALL ANIMAL; STATE OF THE ART;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 67749101329     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0080     Document Type: Review

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