Automatic exposure control and estimation of effective system noise in diffuse fluorescence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 23272-23283

  Kepshire, Dax L ^a   Dehghani, Hamid ^a,b   Leblond, Frederic ^a   Pogue, Brian W ^a,c  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPOSURE CONTROLS; FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PARTICLE BEAMS; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

AUTOMATED ALGORITHMS; DETECTION LEVELS; DIFFUSE FLUORESCENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; EFFECTIVE SYSTEMS; FLUORESCENCE YIELD; PROTOPORPHYRIN IX; SINGLE PARAMETER; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING;

FLUOROPHORES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; FEEDBACK; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 72049090157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.023272     Document Type: Article

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