Shadow effect of large lesions in optical tomography breast imaging

Chen Xu; Quing Zhu

doi:10.1364/biomed.2008.bsue23

Shadow effect of large lesions in optical tomography breast imaging

Chen Xu
, Quing Zhu

Department of Biomedical Engineering

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Abstract

When a highly-absorbing lesion is imaged with optical tomography in reflection geometry, most photons are absorbed by top portion of the lesion. We use photon-tracking technique to quantify this light- shadow effect as function of target size.

Original language	English
Pages	BSuE23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/biomed.2008.bsue23
State	Published - 2008
Event	Biomedical Optics, BIOMED 2008 - St. Petersburg, FL, United States Duration: Mar 16 2008 → Mar 19 2008

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Conference	Biomedical Optics, BIOMED 2008
Country/Territory	United States
City	St. Petersburg, FL
Period	03/16/08 → 03/19/08

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Shadow effect of large lesions in optical tomography breast imaging

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