Monte Carlo based method for fluorescence tomographic imaging with lifetime multiplexing using time gates

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 871-886

  Chen, Jin ^a   Venugopal, Vivek ^a   Intes, Xavier ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PORTALS;

3-DIMENSIONAL; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DATA SETS; DIFFUSE MEDIA; JACOBIANS; MONTE CARLO; MURINE MODEL; SCATTERED PHOTONS; SIMULTANEOUS IMAGING; SIMULTANEOUS RECONSTRUCTION; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING;

FLUOROPHORES;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 80053581220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.2.000871     Document Type: Article

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