Simultaneous fluorescence yield and lifetime tomography from time-resolved transmittances of small-animal-sized phantom

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 3163-3172

  Gao, Feng ^a,b   Li, Jiao ^a   Zhang, Limin ^a   Poulet, Patrick ^c   Zhao, Huijuan ^a,b   Yamada, Yukio ^d  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN KEY LABORATORY OF BIOMEDICAL DETECTING TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; TOMOGRAPHY;

DIFFUSE FLUORESCENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION; FLUORESCENT IMAGING AGENTS; FULL THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIFE-TIME DISTRIBUTION; SIMULTANEOUS RECONSTRUCTION; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; TIME-RESOLVED TRANSMITTANCE;

FLUORESCENCE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 77955994280     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.003163     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. V. Ntziachristos, C.-H. Tung, C. Bremer, and R. Weissleder, "Fluorescence molecular tomography resolves protease activity in vivo", Nature Med. 8, 757-760 (2002).
2. X. L. Song, D. F. Wang, N. G. Chen, J. Bai, and H. K. Wang, "Reconstruction for free-space fluorescence tomography using a novel hybrid adaptive finite element algorithm", Opt. Express 15, 18300-18317 (2007).
3. V. Gaind, K. J. Webb, S. Kularatne, and C. A. Bouman, "Towards in vivo imaging of intramolecular fluorescence resonance energy transfer parameters", J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 26, 1805 (2009).
4. J. McGinty V. Y. Soloviev, K. B. Tahir, R. Laine, D. W. Stuckey J. V. Hajnal, A. Sardini, P. M. W. French, and S. R. Arridge, "Three-dimensional imaging of Forster resonance energy transfer in heterogeneous turbid media by tomographic fluorescent lifetime imaging", Opt. Lett. 34, 2772-2774 (2009).
5. H.-B. Jiang, "Frequency-domain fluorescent diffusion tomography: a finite-element-based algorithm and simulations", Appl. Opt. 37, 5337-5343 (1998).
6. A. B. Thompson, D. J. Hawrysz, and E. M. Sevick-Muraca, "Near-infrared fluorescence contrast-enhanced imaging with area illumination and area detection: the forward imaging problem", Appl. Opt. 42, 4125-4136 (2003).
7. A. B. Milstein, S. Oh, K. J. Webb, C. A. Bouman, Q. Zhang, D. A. Boas, and R. P. Millane, "Fluorescence optical diffusion tomography", Appl. Opt. 42, 3081-3094 (2003).
8. S. Lam, F. Lesage, and X. Intes, "Time domain fluorescent diffuse optical tomography: analytical expressions", Opt. Express 13, 2263-2275 (2005).
9. F. Gao, H.-J. Zhao, Y. Tanikawa, and Y. Yamada, "A linear, featured-data scheme for image reconstruction in time-domain fluorescence molecular tomography", Opt. Express 14, 7109-7124 (2006).
10. L.-M. Zhang, F. Gao, H.-Y. He, and H.-J. Zhao, "Threedimensional scheme for time-domain fluorescence molecular tomography based on Laplace transforms with noise-robust factors", Opt. Express 16, 7214-7223 (2008).
11. A. T. N. Kumar, S. B. Raymond, G. Boverman, D. A. Boas, and B. J. Bacskai, "Time resolved fluorescence tomography of turbid media based on lifetime contrast", Opt. Express 14, 12255-12270 (2006).
12. V. Y. Soloviev, J. McGinty, K. B. Tahir, M. A. Neil, A. Sardini, J. V. Hajnal, S. R. Arridge, and P. M. French, "Fluorescence lifetime tomography of live cells expressing enhanced green fluorescent protein embedded in a scattering medium exhibiting background autofluorescence", Opt. Lett. 32, 2034-2036 (2007).
13. V. Y. Soloviev, K. B. Tahir, J. McGinty, D. S. Elson, M. A. A. Neil, P. M. W. French, and S. R. Arridge, "Fluorescence lifetime imaging by using time-gated data acquisition", Appl. Opt. 46, 7384-7391 (2007).
14. V. Y. Soloviev, C. D'Andrea, G. Valentini, R. Cubeddu, and S. R. Arridge, "Combined reconstruction of fluorescent and optical parameters using time-resolved data", Appl. Opt. 48, 28-36 (2009).
15. F. Leblond, S. C. Davis, P. A. Valdes, and B. W. Pogue, "Preclinical whole body fluorescence imaging: Review of instruments, methods and applications", J. Photochem. Photobiol. B: Biol. 98, 77-94 (2010).
16. S.-H. Han and D. J. Hall, "Estimating the depth and lifetime of a fluorescent inclusion in a turbid medium using a simple timedomain optical method", Opt. Lett. 33, 1035-1037 (2008).
17. F. Gao, H.-J. Zhao, L.-M. Zhang, Y. Tanikawa, A. Marjono, and Y. Yamada, "A self-normalized, full time-resolved method for fluorescence diffuse optical tomography", Opt. Express 16, 13104-13121 (2008).
18. R. E. Nothdurft, S. V. Patwardhan, W. Akers, Y.-P. Ye, S. Achilefu, and J. P. Culver, "In vivo fluorescence lifetime tomography", J. Biomed. Opt. 14, 024004 (2009).
19. H.-J. Zhao, F. Gao, Y. Tanikawa, and Y. Yamada, "Timeresolved diffuse optical tomography and its application to in vitro and in vivo imaging", J. Biomed. Opt. 12, 062107 (2007).
20. M. Brambilla, L. Spinelli, A. Pifferi, A. Torricelli, and R. Cubeddu, "Time-resolved scanning system for double reflectance and transmittance fluorescence imaging of diffusive media", Rev. Sci. Instrum. 79, 013103 (2008).
21. D. Kepshire, N. Mincu, M. Hutchins, J. Gruber, H. Dehghani, J. Hypnarowski, F. Leblond, M. Khayat, and B. W. Pogue, "A microcomupter tomography guided fluorescence tomography system for small animal molecular imaging", Rev. Sci. Instrum. 80 043701 (2009).
22. F. Leblond, D. Kepshire, J. A. Ohara, H. Dehghani, S. Srinivasan, N. Mincu, M. Hutchins, M. Khayat, and B. W. Pogue, "Imaging protoporphyrin IX fluorescence with a time-domain FMT/microCT system", Proc. SPIE 7171, 717106 (2009).
23. E. E. Graves, J. Rapoll, R. Weissleder, and V. Ntziachristos, "A submillimeter resolution fluorescence molecular imaging system for small animal imaging", Med. Phys. 30, 901-911 (2003).
24. W. Becker, Advanced Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting Techniques (Springer, 2005).
25. S. R. Arridge, "Optical tomography in medical imaging", Inverse Probl. 15, R41-R93 (1999).
26. F. Gao, H.-J. Zhao, L.-M. Zhang, Y. Tanikawa, A. Marjono, and Y. Yamada, "A self-normalized, full time-resolved method for fluorescence diffuse optical tomography", Opt. Express 16, 13104-13121 (2008).
27. A. T. N. Kumar, S. B. Raymond, A. K. Dunn, B. J. Bacskai, and D. A. Boas, "A time domain fluorescence tomography system for small animal imaging", IEEE Trans. Med. Imag. 27, 1152-1163 (2008).
28. J. Wu, "Convolution picture of the boundary conditions in photon migration and implications in time-resolved optical imaging of biological tissues", J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14, 280-287 (1997).
29. A. Soubret, J. Ripoll, and V. Ntziachristos, "Accuracy of fluorescent tomography in the presence of heterogeneities: study of the normalized Born ratio", IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 24, 1377-1386 (2005).
30. X. Intes, V. Ntziachristos, J. P., A. Yodh, and B. Chance, "Projection access order in algebraic reconstruction technique for diffuse optical tomography", Phys. Med. Biol. 47, N1-N10 (2002).
31. E. M. C. Hillman, J. C. C., F. E. W. Schmidt, S. R. Arridge, M. Schweiger, H. Dehgani, and D. Deply "Calibration techniques and datatyoe extraction for time-resolved optical tomography", Rev. Sci. Instrum. 71, 3415-3427 (2000).
32. F. Gao, H.-J. Zhao, Y. Tanikawa, K. Homma, and Y. Yamada, "Influences of target size and contrast on near infrared diffuse optical tomography-a comparison between featured-data and full time-resolved schemes", Opt. Quant. Elect. 37, 1287-1304 (2005).
33. J. Riley, M. Hessen, V. Chernomordik, and A. Gandjbakhche, "Choice of data types in time resolved fluorescence enhanced diffuse optical tomography", Med. Phys. 34, 4890-4900 (2007).
34. N. Ducros, L. Hervé, A. Da Silva, J. Dinten, and F. Peyrin, "A comprehensive study of the use of temporal moments in timeresolved diffuse optical tomography: part I. theoretical material", Phys. Med. Biol. 54, 7089-7105 (2009).
35. N. Ducros, A. Da Silva, L. Hervé, J.-M. Dinten, and F. Peyrin, "A comprehensive study of the use of temporal moments in time-resolved diffuse optical tomography: part II. threedimensional reconstructions", Phys. Med. Biol. 54, 7107-7119 (2009).