Development of hybrid NIR/MRI imaging system algorithm: use of a-priori information for tumor detection in the female breast

Author

Dehghani, H. ; Pogue, B.W. ; Paulsen, K.D.

Author_Institution

Thayer Sch. of Eng., Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, NH, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

657

Lastpage

660

Abstract

The use of dual modality MRI and near infrared (NIR) optical tomography is under investigation. It will be shown in this work that accurate structural a-priori knowledge from the MRI image, together with appropriate constraints on the image reconstruction can yield useful and accurate images of internal optical property distributions and that this should help in identifying anomalies within the breast tissue.

Keywords

biomedical MRI; biomedical optical imaging; image reconstruction; infrared imaging; mammography; optical tomography; tumours; a-priori information; anomalies identification; breast tissue; female breast; hybrid NIR/MRI imaging system algorithm; image reconstruction constraints; internal optical property distributions; magnetic resonance imaging; medical diagnostic imaging; near infrared optical tomography; tumor detection; useful accurate images; Biomedical optical imaging; Breast; Image reconstruction; Infrared detectors; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neoplasms; Optical imaging; Optical modulation; Optical scattering; Tomography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Imaging, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7584-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISBI.2002.1029343

Filename

1029343