Nonlinear reconstruction of absorption and fluorescence contrast from measured diffuse transmittance and reflectance of a compressed-breast-simulating phantom

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 4651-4662

  Ziegler, Ronny ^a,b   Nielsen, Tim ^a   Koehler, Thomas ^a   Grosenick, Dirk ^c   Steinkellner, Oliver ^c   Hagen, Axel ^c   MacDonald, Rainer ^c   Rinneberg, Herbert ^b,c  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIA; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; METADATA; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFLECTION;

EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; FLUORESCENCE RADIATIONS; FLUORESCENT CONTRAST AGENTS; FOURIER TRANSFORMATIONS; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; NON LINEAR RECONSTRUCTION; REMISSION MEASUREMENTS; TRANSMITTANCE AND REFLECTANCES;

FLUORESCENCE;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 70249100626     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.004651     Document Type: Article

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