Overcoming ill-posedness of diffuse optical tomography in steady-state domain

Frontiers of Optoelectronics in China

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 44-49

  Quan, Guotao ^a   Bi, Kun ^a   Zeng, Shaoqun ^a   Luo, Qingming ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

diffuse optical tomography (DOT); diffusion approximation; ill posedness; rotation DOT system

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952970277     PISSN: 16744128     EISSN: 16744594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12200-008-0055-8     Document Type: Article

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