| Abstract: | Diffuse optical tomography systems and methods are described herein. In a
general embodiment, the diffuse optical tomography system comprises a
plurality of sensor heads, the plurality of sensor heads comprising
respective optical emitter systems and respective sensor systems. A
sensor head in the plurality of sensors heads is caused to act as an
illuminator, such that its optical emitter system transmits a
transillumination beam towards a portion of a sample. Other sensor heads
in the plurality of sensor heads act as observers, detecting portions of
the transillumination beam that radiate from the sample in the fields of
view of the respective sensory systems of the other sensor heads. Thus,
sensor heads in the plurality of sensors heads generate sensor data in
parallel. |