Image reconstruction in diffuse optical tomography based on simplified spherical harmonics approximation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 24208-24223

  Chu, Michael ^a   Dehghani, Hamid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ANISOTROPY FACTOR; BOUNDARY DATA; DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; FORWARD PROBLEM; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN DATA; HIGHER ORDER; HIGHER-ORDER APPROXIMATION; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; ORDERED MODELS; RADIATIVE TRANSPORT EQUATION; SENSITIVITY MATRIX; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS EXPANSIONS; UNDER-DETERMINED;

REPAIR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 73949088862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.024208     Document Type: Article

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