Imaging performance of a hybrid x-ray computed tomography-fluorescence molecular tomography system using priors

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1976-1986

  Ale, Angelique ^a   Schulz, Ralf B ^a   Sarantopoulos, Athanasios ^a   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluorescence molecular tomography; Hybrid imaging; Multimodality; Reconstruction; X ray CT

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CCD CAMERAS; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOTONS; X RAYS;

FLUORESCENCE MOLECULAR TOMOGRAPHY; HYBRID IMAGING; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; MINIMIZATION FUNCTION; MULTI-MODALITY; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77952340947     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3368603     Document Type: Article

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