A photo-multiplier tube-based hybrid MRI and frequency domain fluorescence tomography system for small animal imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 4731-4747

  Lin, Y ^a   Ghijsen, M T ^a   Gao, H ^b   Liu, N ^a   Nalcioglu, O ^a,c   Gulsen, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDRICAL OBJECTS; CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; EXCITATION AND EMISSION SPECTRA; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; FLUORESCENCE TOMOGRAPHY; FLUOROPHORE CONCENTRATION; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; ILL-POSEDNESS; INDOCYANINE GREEN; LIFETIME PARAMETERS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MR-COMPATIBLE; PHANTOM STUDIES; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; RECONSTRUCTION ACCURACY; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; STRUCTURAL A PRIORI; TIME-RESOLVED;

ANIMALS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROPHORES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; HYBRID COMPUTERS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; RESONANCE; TOMOGRAPHY;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79961072861     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/15/007     Document Type: Article

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