Imaging workflow and calibration for CT-guided time-domain fluorescence tomography

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3021-3036

  Tichauer, Kenneth M ^a   Holt, Robert W ^b   El Ghussein, Fadi ^a   Zhu, Qun ^c   Dehghani, Hamid ^c   Leblond, Frederic ^a   Pogue, Brian W ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

AUTOMATED WORKFLOW; FLUORESCENCE TOMOGRAPHY; IN-VIVO; INSTRUMENT RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; NON-CONTACT; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; SMALL ANIMAL; TIME DOMAIN; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84857830369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.2.003021     Document Type: Article

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