Title :
Measurement information content in fluorescent molecular tomography: Experimental results
Author :
Mohajerani, Pouyan ; Eftekhar, Ali A. ; Adibi, Ali
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA
Abstract :
We investigate the accuracy of fluorescent tomography in imaging deep objects in tissue using an information theoretic analysis of the information content of the measurements. Results are verified by experiments performed on a tissue phantom.
Keywords :
biological tissues; biomedical optical imaging; fluorescence; information theory; optical tomography; phantoms; fluorescent molecular tomography; fluorescent objects; information theoretic analysis; tissue imaging; tissue phantom; Detectors; Electric variables measurement; Fluorescence; Imaging phantoms; Noise measurement; Optical imaging; Optical noise; Size measurement; Skin; Tomography;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Acapulco
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1931-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1932-6
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688476
