论文信息 - Quantification by random walk of the optical parameters of nonlocalized abnormalities embedded within tissuelike phantoms.

Quantification by random walk of the optical parameters of nonlocalized abnormalities embedded within tissuelike phantoms.

We have extended a random-walk theory that uses time-dependent contrast functions to quantify the cross section and the corrected scattering and absorption coefficients of abnormal nonlocalized targets from time-of-flight (TOF) data obtained in time-resolved transillumination experiments. Experimental TOF's are used to show that this newly developed random-walk method is able to quantify the size and the optical properties of embedded nonlocalized targets in with an error rate of </=25%.

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