Comparison of Monte Carlo methods for fluorescence molecular tomography-computational efficiency

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5788-5798

  Chen, Jin ^a   Intes, Xavier ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

fluorescence tomography; Monte Carlo; small animal imaging; time resolved

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; FLUORESCENCE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURATE MODELING; COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; FLUORESCENCE MOLECULAR TOMOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE TOMOGRAPHY; NUMBER OF SOURCES; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; TIME-RESOLVED;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80053615921     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3641827     Document Type: Article

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