Computational aspects of diffuse optical tomography

Author

Schweiger, Martin ; Gibson, Adam ; Arridge, Simon R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Coll. London, UK

Volume

5

Issue

6

fYear

2003

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

41

Abstract

Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is a novel functional imaging modality for visualizing and continuously monitoring tissue and blood oxygenation levels, which is useful for brain imaging and tumor detection. Because of the nonlinearity of infrared light propagation in tissue, developing fast and robust reconstruction methods is the main challenge in making DOT a viable tool for clinical diagnostics.

Keywords

biological tissues; biomedical optical imaging; blood; brain; data visualisation; light propagation; medical diagnostic computing; optical tomography; patient monitoring; tumours; DOT; blood oxygenation levels; brain imaging; clinical diagnostics tool; computational aspects; continuous monitoring; diffuse optical tomography; functional imaging modality; infrared light propagation; robust reconstruction methods; tissue oxygenation levels; tumor detection; visualization; Blood; Brain; Monitoring; Optical computing; Optical imaging; Optical propagation; Tomography; Tumors; US Department of Transportation; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computing in Science & Engineering

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1521-9615

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCISE.2003.1238702

Filename

1238702