Image processing assisted algorithms for optical projection tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-15

  Cheddad, Abbas ^a   Svensson, Christoffer ^a   Sharpe, James ^c   Georgsson, Fredrik ^b   Ahlgren, Ulf ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Artifacts; axis of rotation (AR); biomedical image processing; islets of Langerhans; optical projection tomography (OPT); pancreas; postalignment

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACTS; AXIS OF ROTATION; BIOMEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; OPTICAL PROJECTION TOMOGRAPHY; PANCREAS; POSTALIGNMENT;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; ROTATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

INSULIN;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PANCREAS ISLET; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INSULIN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 84855396325     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2161590     Document Type: Article

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