Imaging complex structures with diffuse light

Opt Express. 2008 Mar 31;16(7):5048-60. doi: 10.1364/oe.16.005048.

Abstract

We use diffuse optical tomography to quantitatively reconstruct images of complex phantoms with millimeter sized features located centimeters deep within a highly-scattering medium. A non-contact instrument was employed to collect large data sets consisting of greater than 10(7) source-detector pairs. Images were reconstructed using a fast image reconstruction algorithm based on an analytic solution to the inverse scattering problem for diffuse light.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Image Enhancement / methods*
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Lighting / methods*
  • Nephelometry and Turbidimetry / methods*
  • Scattering, Radiation
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods*