Title :
Novel image reconstruction algorithm for NIR diffusive tomography
Author :
Chen, Nan Guang ; Zhu, Quing
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Connecticut Univ., Storrs, CT, USA
Abstract :
Diffusive light through human tissues has been used to investigate the functional status of the human body. Accumulated efforts have been made to bring this technique to a clinically acceptable stage. Here, the authors present a new reconstruction method for near infrared (NIR) diffusive tomography. Its usefulness is manifested by reconstructed images from both simulated and experimental data. The authors conclude that their new algorithm is efficient in translating measured diffusive photon density waves into high quality images of optical properties
Keywords :
biodiffusion; image reconstruction; infrared imaging; medical image processing; optical tomography; NIR diffusive tomography; clinically acceptable stage; diffusive light; experimental data; high quality images; human body; human body functional status assessment; human tissues; image reconstruction algorithm; measured diffusive photon density waves; optical properties; simulated data; Absorption; Density measurement; Frequency; Humans; Image reconstruction; Inverse problems; Optical imaging; Tomography; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic variables measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Bioengineering Conference, 2001. Proceedings of the IEEE 27th Annual Northeast
Conference_Location :
Storrs, CT
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6717-0
DOI :
10.1109/NEBC.2001.924711
