• DocumentCode
    2680910
  • Title

    Photon migration in biological tissue and application to diffuse optical tomography

  • Author

    Yamada, Y. ; Feng Gao ; Huijuan Zhao

  • Author_Institution
    Electro-Commun. Univ., Tokyo, Japan
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    15-19 Dec. 2003
  • Abstract
    Near-infrared photon migration in biological tissue is dominated by strong scattering compared with absorption and modeled as a diffusion phenomenon. The modeling of photon migration in tissue is introduced and its application to diffuse optical imaging is explained.
  • Keywords
    biological tissues; biomedical optical imaging; infrared imaging; medical image processing; optical tomography; biological tissue; diffuse optical imaging; diffuse optical tomography; diffusion phenomenon; near-infrared photon migration; scattering; Absorption; Biological system modeling; Biological tissues; Biomedical optical imaging; Optical imaging; Optical propagation; Optical scattering; Photonics; Research and development; Single photon emission computed tomography;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2003. The 5th Pacific Rim Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7766-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2003.1277013
  • Filename
    1277013