Split operator method for fluorescence diffuse optical tomography using anisotropic diffusion regularisation with prior anatomical information
Open Access
- 19 August 2011
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Biomedical Optics Express
- Vol. 2 (9), 2632-2648
- https://doi.org/10.1364/boe.2.002632
Abstract
Fluorescence diffuse optical tomography (fDOT) is an imaging modality that provides images of the fluorochrome distribution within the object of study. The image reconstruction problem is ill-posed and highly underdetermined and, therefore, regularisation techniques need to be used. In this paper we use a nonlinear anisotropic diffusion regularisation term that incorporates anatomical prior information. We introduce a split operator method that reduces the nonlinear inverse problem to two simpler problems, allowing fast and efficient solution of the fDOT problem. We tested our method using simulated, phantom and ex-vivo mouse data, and found that it provides reconstructions with better spatial localisation and size of fluorochrome inclusions than using the standard Tikhonov penalty term.Keywords
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