A combined fluorescence and microcomputed tomography system for small animal imaging

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2876-2883

  Guo, Xiaolian ^a   Liu, Xin ^a   Wang, Xin ^a   Tian, Feng ^a   Liu, Fei ^a   Zhang, Bin ^a   Hu, Guangshu ^a   Bai, Jing ^a  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

Dual modal imaging; fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT); image reconstruction; micro cone beam computed tomography (micro CBCT)

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL IMAGES; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; COREGISTERED; CT IMAGE; DATA SETS; DUAL-MODAL IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE MOLECULAR TOMOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE MOLECULAR TOMOGRAPHY (FMT); FREE SPACE; IN-VIVO; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; MICRO-CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MICRO-CBCT); MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR LEVELS; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGICAL PROCESS; PROJECTION IMAGE; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; SMALL ANIMAL; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRONG DEMAND; TOMOGRAPHIC;

ANIMALS; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTEGRATED OPTICS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; FLUORESCENCE MOLECULAR TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; MICRO CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MODELS, ANIMAL; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78649256289     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2073468     Document Type: Article

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