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Shape-based reconstruction of dynamic fluorescent yield with a level set method.
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BioMedical Engineering OnLine . 1/14/2016, Vol. 15, p1-10. 10p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- <bold>Background: </bold>Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) is an optical imaging technique that reveals biological processes within small animals through non-invasively reconstructing the distributions of fluorescent agents. The primary problem in FMT with non-stationary fluorescent yield is the increase of the unknown parameters to be reconstructed. In this paper, a method is proposed to reconstruct dynamic fluorescent yield.<bold>Methods: </bold>A shape-based reconstruction method that recovers dynamic fluorescent yield with a level set method is proposed for FMT. To reduce the number of unknown parameters, a level set function is introduced to describe the shape of target and a small number of parameters are used to describe the fluorescent yields at different time points.<bold>Results: </bold>Results of simulations and phantom experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can recover well the dynamic fluorescent yields, shapes and locations of the target.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>The proposed method can handle the cases with non-stationary fluorescent yields and recover the fluorescent yields at each projection angle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1475925X
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- BioMedical Engineering OnLine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 112267822
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12938-016-0124-y