Uniqueness theorems in bioluminescence tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2289-2299

  Wang, Ge ^a   Li, Yi ^b,c   Jiang, Ming ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bioluminescence tomography (BLT); Diffusion equation; Inverse source problem; Solution uniqueness

Indexed keywords

BIOLUMINESCENCE; GENE THERAPY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHOSPHORESCENCE; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOLUMINESCENCE TOMOGRAPHY; BIOLUMINESCENT IMAGING; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; INVERSE SOURCE PROBLEM; SOLUTION UNIQUENESS; SOURCE DISTRIBUTION; UNIQUENESS THEOREM; UNIVERSITY OF IOWA;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOLUMINESCENCE TOMOGRAPHY; CALCULATION; DIFFUSION; GENE THERAPY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LITERATURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RADIATION BEAM; SOLID; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

EID: 4043105065     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1766420     Document Type: Article

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