Assessment of basic instrumental performance of time-domain optical brain imagers

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7896, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wabnitz, Heidrun ^a   Pifferi, Antonio ^b,c   Torricelli, Alessandro ^b   Taubert, Dieter R ^a   Mazurenka, Mikhail ^a   Steinkellner, Oliver ^a   Jelzow, Alexander ^a   Farina, Andrea ^b   Bargigia, Ilaria ^b   Contini, Davide ^b   Caffini, Matteo ^b   Zucchelli, Lucia ^b   Spinelli, Lorenzo ^c   Sawosz, Piotr ^d   Liebert, Adam ^d   MacDonald, Rainer ^a   Cubeddu, Rinaldo ^b,c  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c IFN CNR   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

Author keywords

instrumentation; performance comparison; time domain optical brain imaging; tissue like phantoms

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR CHARACTERISTICS; BRAIN IMAGERS; DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; DETECTION SYSTEM; DIFFERENTIAL NONLINEARITY; EUROPEAN PROJECT; HIGH REPETITION RATE; INSTRUMENT RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; INSTRUMENTATION; LAMBERTIAN; OPTICAL BRAIN IMAGING; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PICOSECOND LASER; RESPONSIVITY; SOLID SLABS; TIME DOMAIN; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; TISSUE-LIKE PHANTOMS;

DETECTORS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; RATING;

TISSUE;

EID: 79955708702     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.874654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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