抄録
Diffuse optical tomography using near infrared light has been developed for the purpose of imaging oxygenation states in human body. The technology is classified into three groups by measuring techniques; CW, frequency and time domain techniques. This review describes light propagation in biological tissues and their optical properties for solving the forward problem in the image reconstruction algorithm which resorts to the technique of inverse problems. Recent development of the algorithms are also reviewed and future applications are described.
