Hybrid use of early and quasi-continuous wave photons in time-domain tomographic imaging for improved resolution and quantitative accuracy

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 665-679

  Niedre, Mark ^a   Li, Zhi ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTINUOUS WAVES; DATA SETS; DETECTION SENSITIVITY; DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; HIGHER RESOLUTION; IMAGING RESOLUTIONS; INITIAL GUESS; INTERMEDIATE IMAGE; NOISE PERFORMANCE; PULSED LASER SOURCES; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; SIMULATED DATA; TIME DOMAIN; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING;

PHOTONS;

EID: 81355127426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.2.000665     Document Type: Article

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