Experimental fluorescence tomography of tissues with noncontact measurements

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 492-500

  Schulz, Ralf B ^a,b   Ripoll, Jorge ^c   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; Optical fluorescence tomography

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FLUORESCENCE; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TISSUE;

NONCONTACT OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS; OPTICAL FLUORESCENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGUS; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGUS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 1942454913     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.825633     Document Type: Article

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