Iterative reconstruction method for light emitting sources based on the diffusion equation

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-68

  Slavine, Nikolai V ^a   Lewis, Matthew A ^a   Richer, Edmond ^a   Antich, Peter P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Bioluminescence imaging; Boundary condition; Deblurring EM method; Diffusion equation

Indexed keywords

BIOLUMINESCENCE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIFFUSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TISSUE;

3D RECONSTRUCTION; BIOLUMINESCENCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; EM METHODS; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION METHOD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION METHODS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUES;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; DIFFUSION; LIGHT; LIGHT INTENSITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STANDARD; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 31044454522     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2138007     Document Type: Article

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