1. Feature Section Guest Editorial

   • Toshimitsu Asakura
   • Toshiaki Iwai

   OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY AND TOPOGRAPHY Pages: 365 - 365

2. Fundamental Studies of Photon Migration in Biological Tissues and Their Application to Optical Tomography

   • Yukio Yamada

   Review Pages: 366 - 374

3. The Effect of Superficial Tissue of the Head on Spatial Sensitivity Profiles for Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Imaging

   • Eiji Okada

   Review Pages: 375 - 382

4. Fundamental Study on Near-Axis Scattered Light and Its Application to Optical Computed Tomography

   • Koichi Shimizu
   • Masataka Kitama

   Review Pages: 383 - 388

5. Detection Schemes for Optical-Coherence-Domain Imaging of Biological Tissues

   • Kin Pui Chan
   • Manabu Sato
   • Naohiro Tanno

   Review Pages: 389 - 395

6. Optical Coherence Tomographic Features of Macular Diseases

   • Tomohiro Otani
   • Shoji Kishi

   Review Pages: 396 - 401

7. An Approach to Optical Reflection Tomography along the Geometrical Thickness

   • Koji Yoden
   • Masato Ohmi
   • Masamitsu Haruna

   Review Pages: 402 - 405

8. Coherence Spectrotomography: Optical Spectroscopic Tomography with Low-Coherence Interferometry

   • Wataru Watanabe
   • Kazuyoshi Itoh

   Review Pages: 406 - 414

9. Measurement of Dynamic Flow Field by Optical Computed Tomography with Shearing Interferometers

   • Koichi Iwata
   • Hisao Kikuta

   ReviewPaper Pages: 415 - 419

10. Time-Resolved Measurements of in vivo Optical Properties of Piglet Brain

    • Angelo Sassaroli
    • Fabrizio Martelli
    • Yukio Yamada

    Regular Papers Pages: 420 - 425

11. Topographic Distribution of Photon Measurement Density Functions on the Brain Surface by Hybrid Radiosity-Diffusion Method

    • Muneo Ono
    • Yoshihiko Kashio
    • Eiji Okada

    Regular Papers Pages: 426 - 431

12. Optical Computed Tomography Based on Extraction of Quasi-Straight forward Propagating Photons Using Sum-Frequency Generation Technique

    • Kenji Wada
    • Yasuhiko Satomura
    • Kenji Nakamura

    Regular Papers Pages: 432 - 435

13. Imaging of an Absorbing Object Embedded in a Dense Scattering Medium by Diffusing Light Topography

    • Toshiaki Iwai
    • Gaku Kimura

    Regular Papers Pages: 436 - 441

14. Optical Coherence Tomography System based on Synthesis of Optica Coherence Function with a Wavelength-Scanning Laser Source

    • Hajime Hiratsuka
    • Kentaro Morisaki
    • Takeaki Yoshimura

    Regular Papers Pages: 442 - 447

15. Visualization and Analysis of a Micro-Flow Generated by an Optical Rotator

    • Hiroo Ukita
    • Mamoru Idaka

    OPTICAL SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES Pages: 448 - 450

16. Diode-Pumped Passively Q-switched Single-Frequency Nd:YAG Lasers

    • De-Yuan Shen
    • Siu-Chung Tam
    • Takao Kobayashi

    LASERS Pages: 451 - 454

17. Output Characteristics of High-Power Continuous Wave Raman Fiber Laser at 1484 nm Using Phosphosilicate Fiber

    • Mahendra Prabhu
    • Nam Seong Kim
    • Ken-ichi Ueda

    PHOTONICS AND OPTOELECTRONICS Pages: 455 - 461

18. Phase-Drift-Suppression Method Using Higher Order Harmonics in Heterodyne Detection

    • Manabu Sato
    • Masakazu Endo
    • Naohiro Tanno

    OPTICAL SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES Pages: 462 - 467

19. Simultaneous Measurement of Refractive Index and Thickness by Low Coherence Interferometry Considering Chromatic Dispersion of Index

    • Hideki Maruyama
    • Teruki Mitsuyama
    • Masamitsu Haruna

    OPTICAL SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES Pages: 468 - 472

20. Applicability of Time Integrated Spectroscopy Based on the Microscopic Beer-Lambert Law to Finite Turbid Media with Curved Boundaries

    • Hedong Zhang
    • Yutaka Tsuchiya

    OPTICAL MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES Pages: 473 - 478