Near infrared optical tomography using NIRFAST: Algorithm for numerical model and image reconstruction

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 711-732

  Dehghani, Hamid ^a,b   Eames, Matthew E ^a   Yalavarthy, Phaneendra K ^b,c   Davis, Scott C ^b   Srinivasan, Subhadra ^b   Carpenter, Colin M ^b   Pogue, Brian W ^b   Paulsen, Keith D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse optical tomography; Finite element methods; Image reconstruction; Inverse problems; Near infrared imaging

Indexed keywords

3-D MODELING; ACCURATE MODELING; BREAST CANCER; CHROMOPHORE CONCENTRATIONS; CLINICAL DATA; DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING; DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; MEASURED DATA; MODELING TECHNIQUE; MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS; MULTIWAVELENGTH; NEAR INFRARED IMAGING; NEAR INFRARED OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; NEAR INFRARED TOMOGRAPHY; NON-INVASIVE; NUMERICAL MODELS; SCATTERING SPECTRA; SINGLE WAVELENGTH; SOFT TISSUE;

CHROMOPHORES; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REPAIR; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 65349191580     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1162     Document Type: Article

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