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Radiative transport-based frequency-domain fluorescence tomography

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Published 26 March 2008 2008 Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
, , Citation Amit Joshi et al 2008 Phys. Med. Biol. 53 2069 DOI 10.1088/0031-9155/53/8/005

0031-9155/53/8/2069

Abstract

We report the development of radiative transport model-based fluorescence optical tomography from frequency-domain boundary measurements. The coupled radiative transport model for describing NIR fluorescence propagation in tissue is solved by a novel software based on the established Attila™ particle transport simulation platform. The proposed scheme enables the prediction of fluorescence measurements with non-contact sources and detectors at a minimal computational cost. An adjoint transport solution-based fluorescence tomography algorithm is implemented on dual grids to efficiently assemble the measurement sensitivity Jacobian matrix. Finally, we demonstrate fluorescence tomography on a realistic computational mouse model to locate nM to µM fluorophore concentration distributions in simulated mouse organs.

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