Effects of sampling strategy on image quality in noncontact panoramic fluorescence diffuse optical tomography for small animal imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 5125-5138

  Zhang, Xiaofeng ^a   Badea, Cristian ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DATA ACQUISITION; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLING;

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; FLUORESCENCE DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; SINGULAR-VALUE ANALYSIS; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 65249087327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.005125     Document Type: Article

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