Radiative transport-based frequency-domain fluorescence tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2069-2088

  Joshi, Amit ^a   Rasmussen, John C ^a   Sevick Muraca, Eva M ^a   Wareing, Todd A ^b   McGhee, John ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Transpire Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; JACOBIAN MATRICES; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORESCENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PARTICLE TRANSPORT SIMULATION;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFFUSION THEORY BASED OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NEAR INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATIVE TRANSPORT BASED FREQUENCY DOMAIN FLUORESCENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; MICE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 42649103988     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/8/005     Document Type: Article

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