Evaluation of the simplified spherical harmonics approximation in bioluminescence tomography through heterogeneous mouse models

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 20988-21002

  Liu, Kai ^a   Lu, Yujie ^b,e   Tian, Jie ^a,c   Qin, Chenghu ^a   Yang, Xin ^a   Zhu, Shouping ^c   Yang, Xiang ^a,c   Gao, Quansheng ^d   Han, Dong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PHOSPHORESCENCE; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOLUMINESCENCE TOMOGRAPHY; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DIFFUSION APPROXIMATIONS; FORWARD MODELS; HIGHER-ORDER APPROXIMATION; HIGHER-ORDER METHODS; IMAGING QUALITY; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; MOUSE MODELS; NUMERICAL VALIDATIONS; OPTICAL DOMAINS; OPTICAL INFORMATION; SMALL ANIMAL; SOURCE DISTRIBUTION; SOURCE LOCATION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

BIOLUMINESCENCE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUMINESCENCE; MICE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77958021180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.020988     Document Type: Article

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