Radiative transport-based frequency-domain fluorescence tomography

Phys Med Biol. 2008 Apr 21;53(8):2069-88. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/8/005. Epub 2008 Mar 26.

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 microM fluorophore concentration distributions in simulated mouse organs.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Animals
  • Diagnostic Imaging / methods
  • Equipment Design
  • Fluorescence
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation*
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods
  • Kidney / pathology
  • Mice
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Scattering, Radiation
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Software
  • Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared / methods
  • Tomography, Optical / instrumentation*
  • Tomography, Optical / methods*