Absorption and scattering images of heterogeneous scattering media can be simultaneously reconstructed by use of dc data

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 25, 2002, Pages 5427-5437

  Xu, Yong ^a,b   Gu, Xuejun ^a,b   Khan, Taufiquar ^a,b   Jiang, Huabei ^a,b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Physics and Astronomy ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0036707483     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.005427     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. A. Yodh and B. Chance, “Spectroscopy and imaging with diffusing light,” Phys. Today 48, 34-40 (1995).
2. S. Colak, M. van der Mark, G. t’ Hooft, J. Hoogenraad, E. van der Linden, and F. Kuijpers, “Clinical optical tomography and NIR spectroscopy for breast cancer detection,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 5, 1143-1158 (1999).
3. V. Ntziachristos, A. Yodh, M. Schnall, and B. Chance, “Concurrent MRI and diffuse optical tomography of breast after indocyanine green enhancement,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 2767-2772 (2000).
4. T. O. McBride, B. W. Pogue, S. Jiang, U. L. Osterberg, K. D. Paulsen, and S. P. Poplack, “Initial studies of in vivo absorbing and scattering heterogeneity in near-infrared tomographic breast imaging,” Opt. Lett. 26, 822-824 (2001).
5. B. W. Pogue, S. P. Poplack, T. O. McBride, W. A. Wells, K. S. Osterman, U. L. Osterberg, and K. D. Paulsen, “Quantitative hemoglobin tomography with diffuse near-infrared spectroscopy: pilot results in the breast,” Radiology 218, 261-266 (2001).
6. H. Jiang, Y. Xu, N. Iftimia, J. Eggert, K. Klove, L. Baron, and L. Fajardo, “Three-dimensional optical tomographic imaging of breast in a human subject,” IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 20, 60-66 (2001).
7. H. Jiang, N. Iftimia, Y. Xu, J. Eggert, L. Fajardo, and K. Klove, “Near-infrared optical imaging of the breast with model-based reconstruction,” Acad. Radiol. 9, 186-194 (2002).
8. M. A. O’Leary, D. A. Boas, B. Chance, and A. G. Yodh, “Experimental images of heterogeneous turbid media by frequency-domain diffusing-photon tomography,” Opt. Lett. 20, 426-428 (1995).
9. H. Jiang, K. D. Paulsen, U. L. Osterberg, B. W. Pogue, and M. S. Patterson, “Simultaneous reconstruction of absorption and scattering maps in turbid media from near-infrared frequency-domain data,” Opt. Lett. 20, 2128-2130 (1995).
10. W. Cai, S. Gayen, M. Xu, M. Zevallos, M. Alrubaiee, M. Lax, and R. Alfano, “Optical tomographic image reconstruction from ultrafast time-sliced transmission measurements,” Appl. Opt. 38, 4237-4246 (1999).
11. J. Hebden, F. Schmidt, M. Fry, M. Schweiger, E. Hillman, D. Delpy, and S. Arridge, “Simultaneous reconstruction ofabsorp-tion and scattering imaging by multichannel measurement of purely temporal data,” Opt. Lett. 24, 534-536 (1999).
12. J. Zhang, H. L. Graber, P. C. Kou, R. Aronson, S. S. Barbour, and R. L. Barbour, “Optical imaging of anatomical maps derived from magnetic resonance images using timeindependent optical source,” IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 16, 68-77 (1997).
13. H. Jiang, K. D. Paulsen, and U. L. Osterberg, “Optical image reconstruction using dc data: simulations and experiments,” Phys. Med. Biol. 41, 1483-1498 (1996).
14. B. Chance, Q. Luo, S. Nioka, D. Alsop, and J. Detre, “Optical investigations of physiology: a study of biomedical intrinsic and extrinsic contrast,” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London Ser. B 352, 707-716 (1997).
15. A. Siegel, J. Marota, and D. Boas, “Design and evaluation of a continuous-wave diffuse optical tomography system,” Opt. Express 4, 287-298 (1999).
16. J. C. Schotland, “Continuous-wave diffusion imaging,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14, 275-279 (1997).
17. S. Colak, D. Papaioannou, G. t’ Hooft, M. vander Mark, H. Schomberg, J. Paasschens, J. Melissen, and N. VanAsten, “Tomographic image reconstruction from optical projections in light diffusing media,” Appl. Opt. 36, 180-213 (1997).
18. C. L. Matson, “Deconvolution-based spatial resolution in optical diffusion tomography,” Appl. Opt. 40, 5791-5801 (2001).
19. H. Jiang, K. Paulsen, U. Osterberg, and M. Patterson, “Improved continuous light diffusion imaging in single- and multitarget tissue-like phantoms,” Phys. Med. Biol. 43, 675-693 (1998).
20. N. Iftimia and H. Jiang, “Quantitative optical image reconstruction of turbid media using dc measurements,” Appl. Opt. 39, 5256-5261 (2000).
21. H. Jiang, Y. Xu, and N. Iftimia, “Experimental threedimensional optical image reconstruction of heterogeneous turbid media,” Opt. Express 7, 204-209 (2000).
22. Y. Xu, N. Iftimia, H. Jiang, L. L. Key, and M. B. Bolster, “Three-dimensional diffuse optical tomography of bones and joints,” J. Biomed. Opt. 7, 88-92 (2002).
23. Y. Xu, N. Iftimia, H. Jiang, L. Key, and M. Bolster, “Imaging of in vitro and in vivo bones and joints with continuous-wave diffuse optical tomography,” Opt. Express 8, 447-451 (2001).
24. M. Schweiger and S. Arridge, “Application of temporal filters to time resolved data in optical tomography,” Phys. Med. Biol. 44, 1699-1717 (1999).
25. Y. Pei, H. L. Graber, and R. L. Barbour, “Normalized-constraint algorithm for minimizing inter-parameter crosstalk in dc optical tomography,” Opt. Express 9, 97-109 (2001).
26. S. Arridge and W. Lionheart, “Nonuniqueness in diffusion-based optical tomography,” Opt. Lett. 23, 882-884 (1998).
27. K. D. Paulsen and H. Jiang, “Spatially-varying optical property reconstruction using a finite element diffusion equation approximation,” Med. Phys. 22, 691-702 (1995).
28. R. Cubeddu, A. Pifferi, P. Taroni, A. Torricelli, and G. Valen-tini, “A solid tissue phantom for photon migration studies,” Phys. Med. Biol. 42, 1971-1979 (1997).
29. Y. Pei, H. L. Graber, R. L. Barbour, and R. Aronson, “Influence of systematic errors in reference states on image quality and on stability of derived information for dc optical imaging,” Appl. Opt. 40, 5755-5769 (2001).
30. H. T. Banks and K. Kunisch, Estimation Techniques for Distributed Parameter Systems (Birkhauser, Boston, 1989).
31. H. L. Graber, Y. Pei, and R. Barbour, “Imaging of spatiotemporal coincident states by dc optical tomography,” IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging (to be published).
32. G. Dahlquist and A. Bjorck, Numerical Methods (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1974).
33. J. Stoer and R. Bulirsch, Introduction to Numerical Analysis (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1980).