Experimental measurement of time-dependant photon scatter for diffuse optical tomography

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Valim, Niksa ^a   Brock, James ^a   Niedre, Mark ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

diffuse optical tomography; early photons; Monte Carlo; time resolved

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION APPROXIMATIONS; DIFFUSIVE MEDIA; EARLY PHOTONS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; INSTRUMENT NOISE; LIGHT SCATTER; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; OPTIMAL OPERATING POINT; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; PHOTON DENSITIES; PHOTON PROPAGATION; PULSED LASER SOURCES; QUASI-CONTINUOUS-WAVES; SENSITIVITY FUNCTIONS; SINGLE PHOTONS; SMALL ANIMAL; TIME RESOLVED MEASUREMENT; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-GATED DETECTION; TIME-RESOLVED; TRANSMITTED INTENSITIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

PHOTONS;

ANIMALIA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 78650131500     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3523371     Document Type: Article

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