Numerical modelling and image reconstruction in diffuse optical tomography

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1900, 2009, Pages 3073-3093

  Dehghani, Hamid ^a   Sri Nivasan, Subhadra ^b   Pogue, Brian W ^b   Gibson, Adam ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; Near infrared imaging; Optical tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REPAIR; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; BOUNDARY DATA; BOUNDARY MEASUREMENTS; DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSE PROPAGATION; DUAL-MODALITY SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; ILL POSED; ILL-CONDITIONED; IMAGING CONTRAST; LIGHT PROPAGATION IN TISSUE; MODEL-BASED; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-INFRARED IMAGING; NUMERICAL MODELLING; OPTICAL PARAMETER; PRIOR INFORMATION; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

HEMOGLOBIN;

HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 67749116162     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0090     Document Type: Review

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