Near-infrared (NIR) tomography breast image reconstruction with a priori structural information from MRI: Algorithm development for reconstructing heterogeneities

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 199-209

  Brooksby, Ben A ^a   Dehghani, Hamid ^a   Poque, Brian W ^a   Paulsen, Keith D ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Diffuse; Frequency domain; Hemoglobin; Photon density wave; Photon migration; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFRARED IMAGING; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOGENIC VIRUSES; OPTIMIZATION; PATHOLOGY; TUMORS;

BREAST IMAGING; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; NEAR INFRARED TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTON DENSITY WAVE; PHOTON MIGRATION;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0242493241     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.813304     Document Type: Article

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