Time-gated perturbation Monte Carlo for whole body functional imaging in small animals

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 19566-19579

  Chen, Jin ^a   Intes, Xavier ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REPAIR;

BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL METHOD; DIFFUSION-EQUATION MODELS; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL PARAMETERS; MONTE CARLO MODEL; OPTICAL RECONSTRUCTION; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOUSE; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 70749114898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019566     Document Type: Article

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