Measurement operator for angular dependent photon propagation in contact-free optical tomography

Based on light propagation theory, the measurements of a contact-free imaging system with generalized optical components can be obtained from a linear transformation of the light intensity distribution on the surface of the imaging object. In this work, we derived the linear measurement operator needed to perform this transformation. Numerical experiments were designed and conducted for validation.

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