Transmission and fluorescence angular domain optical projection tomography of turbid media

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 33, 2009, Pages 6448-6457

  Vasefi, Fartash ^a,b   Ng, Eldon ^b,c   Kaminska, Bozena ^a   Chapman, Glenn H ^a   Jordan, Kevin ^c,d   Carson, Jeffery J L ^b,c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; PHOTONS; PROJECTION SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHY; TURBIDITY;

FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; IMAGING THROUGH TURBID MEDIA; LONGITUDINAL RESOLUTION; OPTICAL PROJECTION TOMOGRAPHY; REDUCED SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; SIMULTANEOUS ABSORPTION; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY; TRANSILLUMINATION;

EID: 73649127229     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.006448     Document Type: Article

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