Inverse scattering algorithms for biological tissue diffraction tomography: a comparative study

Author

Kechribaris, C. ; Maniatis, T.A. ; Nikita, K.S. ; Uzunoglu, N.K.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece

Volume

4

fYear

2003

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

3775

Abstract

In this work we compare two diffraction tomography methods for the reconstruction of two dimensional (2D) biological objects. The proposed methods use the Lippmann-Schwinger Scattering Integral Equation (SIE) to describe the interaction of the incident wave with the scattering object. The reconstruction of the unknown complex refractive index is achieved after monochromatic illumination of the scatterer by a number of incident plane waves and measurement of the scattered field at various observation directions. The purpose of this study is to compare the proposed algorithms in terms of reconstruction accuracy and computational efficiency and to evaluate the range of their respective validity.

Keywords

biological effects of optical radiation; biological tissues; biomedical optical imaging; image reconstruction; integral equations; inverse problems; light diffraction; medical image processing; optical tomography; refractive index; Lippmann-Schwinger scattering integral equation; biological tissue diffraction tomography; incident plane waves; inverse scattering algorithms; monochromatic illumination; refractive index; scattered field measurement; two dimensional biological objects reconstruction; Acoustic scattering; Biological tissues; Biomedical measurements; Diffraction; Electromagnetic scattering; Image reconstruction; Inverse problems; Iterative methods; Refractive index; Tomography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7789-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1280982

Filename

1280982