Improving limited-projection-angle fluorescence molecular tomography using a co-registered x-ray computed tomography scan

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Radrich, Karin ^a,b   Ale, Angelique ^a,b   Ermolayev, Vladimir ^a,b   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Co registration; Fluorescence molecular tomography; Hybrid imaging; Molecular imaging; Multimodality; Priors; Reconstruction; X ray computed tomography

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

COREGISTRATION; FLUORESCENCE MOLECULAR TOMOGRAPHY; HYBRID IMAGING; MULTI-MODALITY; PRIORS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84878290482     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.17.12.126011     Document Type: Article

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