Photon propagation correction in 3D photoacoustic image reconstruction using Monte Carlo simulation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7564, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Cheong, Yaw Jye ^b,c   Stantz, Keith M ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BrainLAB Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Monte Carlo; Photoacoustic computed tomography

Indexed keywords

3D OBJECT; ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; APRIORI; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTIONS; MOLECULAR SPECIES; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; MONTE CARLO CODES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; OPTICAL SCATTERING; PHOTOACOUSTIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGE; PHOTON PROPAGATION; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; RECOVERY ALGORITHMS; REDUCED SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; SINGLE SOURCE; SOLID TUMORS; SPATIAL FIDELITY; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; STATISTICAL ERRORS; TISSUE ATTENUATION;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERRORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONS; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 77951539444     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.842196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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