Two-dimensional bioluminescence tomography: Numerical simulations and phantom experiments

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3390-3394

  Li, Senhu ^a   Zhang, Qizhi ^a   Jiang, Huabei ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LIGHT SOURCES;

BIOLUMINESCENCE TOMOGRAPHY (BLT); BLT RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; IMAGING BOUNDARY; PHANTOM EXPERIMENTS;

BIOLUMINESCENCE;

PHOTOPROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 33745614948     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.003390     Document Type: Article

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