Spectrally resolved three-dimensional bioluminescence tomography with a level-set strategy

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1413-1423

  Liu, Kai ^a   Yang, Xin ^a   Liu, Dan ^a   Qin, Chenghu ^a   Liu, Junting ^b   Chang, Zhijun ^a   Xu, Min ^a   Tian, Jie ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLUMINESCENCE; PHOSPHORESCENCE; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOLUMINESCENCE TOMOGRAPHY; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; INITIAL VALUES; LEVEL SETS; NOISE LEVELS; NUMERICAL PHANTOMS; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LINEAR MODELS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MICE; OPTICAL PROCESSES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77955998407     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.27.001413     Document Type: Article

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