Practical reconstruction method for bioluminescence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 6756-6771

  Cong, Wenxiang ^a   Wang, Ge ^a   Kumar, Durairaj ^a   Liu, Yi ^a   Jiang, Ming ^a,b   Wang, Lihong V ^c   Hoffman, Eric A ^a   McLennan, Geoffrey ^a   McCray, Paul B ^a   Zabner, Joseph ^a   Cong, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFUSION; DRUG PRODUCTS; PHOTONS; TISSUE;

NUMERICAL STABILITY; PHOTON PROPAGATION; SOURCE DISTRIBUTION; SOURCE LOCATION;

BIOLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 24944438742     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006756     Document Type: Article

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