Title :
Tomography with diffusing photons: a Feynman path integral perspective
Author :
Schotland, John C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Radiol., Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO, USA
Abstract :
We consider the problem of imaging the optical absorption or fluorescent source distribution of a highly-scattering medium probed by diffusive light. Analytic solutions to the tomographic image reconstruction problem are presented
Keywords :
biological tissues; image reconstruction; light scattering; medical image processing; optical tomography; Feynman path integral perspective; analytic solutions; diffusing photons; diffusive light; fluorescent source distribution; highly-scattering medium; imaging; medical optical imaging; optical absorption; tomographic image reconstruction problem; tomography; Absorption; Fluorescence; Image analysis; Image reconstruction; Light scattering; Optical imaging; Optical scattering; Particle scattering; Physics; Single photon emission computed tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2000. ICASSP '00. Proceedings. 2000 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6293-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2000.860228
