Implicit and explicit prior information in near-infrared spectral imaging: Accuracy, quantification and diagnostic value

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1955, 2011, Pages 4531-4557

  Pogue, Brian W ^a   Davis, Scott C ^a   Leblond, Frederic ^a   Mastanduno, Michael A ^a   Dehghani, Hamid ^a   Paulsen, Keith D ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular; Near infrared; Optical; Reconstruction; Spectroscopy; Tomography

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFRARED DEVICES; SPECTROSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOPHYSICAL MODEL; BULK TISSUE; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FORWARD MODELS; IMAGING TOOLS; LUMINESCENT AGENTS; MEASUREMENT DATA; MOLECULAR; NEAR INFRARED; OPTICAL; POST PROCESSING; PRE-PROCESSING; PRIOR INFORMATION; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SPECTRAL IMAGING; TEMPORAL SIGNALS;

TISSUE;

FLUORESCENT DYE;

BIOPHYSICS; BREAST TUMOR; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICS; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOPHYSICS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 82255196464     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0228     Document Type: Review

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