Fluorescence molecular tomography in the presence of background fluorescence

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 3983-4001

  Soubret, Antoine ^a   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROBES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ENGINEERED FLUORESCENT PROBES; FLUORESCENCE MOLECULAR TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTON PROPAGATION; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 33746789471     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/16/007     Document Type: Article

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