KEYWORDS: Bone, Absorption, 3D image processing, In vivo imaging, Diffuse optical tomography, In vitro testing, 3D metrology, Tissues, Optical properties, Solids
A pilot clinical study on ten female volunteers is reported using our multi-channel frequency-domain optical imager. Seven of these patients were previously identified with tumors or microcalcifications by x-ray and/or ultrasound mammography. These tumors had a size between 5 and 38 mm. Using our optical imager and reconstruction methods we were able to detect all tumors that had been identified by x-ray and/or ultrasound mammography. The quantification of our improved scattering images shows a clear differentiation between benign and malignant tumors. A comparison between our results and x-ray/ultrasound results is also given.
The reconstruction of fluorescence lifetime distributions in heterogeneous turbid media and tumor-bearing animals are experimentally demonstrated by frequency-domain measurements. A set of coupled diffusion equations are used to describe the propagation of excitation and fluorescent emission light in multiply scattering media. A finite element based reconstruction algorithm combined with Marquardt and Tikhonov regularization methods are used to obtain the fluorescence images. The experimental set-up is an automatic multi-channel frequency-domain system. 16 sources and 16 detectors are used. Experiments are performed using indocyanine green (ICG) and 3,3'-diethylthiatricarbocyanine iodide (DTTCI) in tissue-like phantoms of both single- and multi-target configurations with considerations of perfect and imperfect uptake of fluorescence dyes in the scattering media. ICG are used in tumor-bearing animal studies. Our results show that the fluorescence lifetime image of the heterogeneities within a circular surrounding medium and in-vivo tissue can be reconstructed successfully.
KEYWORDS: 3D image processing, Reconstruction algorithms, 3D image reconstruction, Tumors, Optical properties, Tissues, Image restoration, In vivo imaging, 3D modeling, Diffusion
A three-dimensional (3D) finite-element optical tomographic reconstruction algorithm based on a diffusion equation approximation is presented. The algorithm uses a regularized Newton method to update an initial (guess) optical property distribution iteratively in order to minimize an object function composed of a weighted sum of the squared difference between computed and measured data, and reconstructs the spatial distribution of the absorption and scattering coefficients of turbid media/tissues using DC data. Considering the memory requirements and computational cost for 3D reconstruction, the algorithm has been parallelized with Message-Passing Interface. We have conducted both phantom and in vivo clinical experiments to evaluate our parallelized three-dimensional reconstruction algorithm. The results show that 3D volumetric images of turbid media and in vivo tissues can be successfully reconstructed.
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