Recently,the simplified spherical harmonics equations(SP)model has at tracted much att entionin modeling the light propagation in small tissue ggeometriesat visible and near-infrared wave-leng ths.In this paper,we rep...Recently,the simplified spherical harmonics equations(SP)model has at tracted much att entionin modeling the light propagation in small tissue ggeometriesat visible and near-infrared wave-leng ths.In this paper,we report an eficient numerical method for fluorescence moleeular tom-ography(FMT)that combines the advantage of SP model and adaptive hp finite elementmethod(hp-FEM).For purposes of comparison,hp-FEM and h-FEM are,respectively applied tothe reconstruction pro cess with diffusion approximation and SPs model.Simulation experiments on a 3D digital mouse atlas and physical experiments on a phantom are designed to evaluate thereconstruction methods in terms of the location and the reconstructed fluorescent yield.Theexperimental results demonstrate that hp-FEM with SPy model,yield more accurate results thanh-FEM with difusion approximation model does.The phantom experiments show the potentialand feasibility of the proposed approach in FMT applications.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61372046)the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(New Teachers)(Grant No.20116101120018)+6 种基金the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project(Grant Nos.2011M501467 and 2012T50814)the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China(Grant No.2011JQ1006)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.GK201302007)Science and Technology Plan Program,in Shaanxi Province of China(Grant Nos.2012 KJXX-29 and 2013K12-20-12)the Science and Technology Plan Program in Xian of China(Grant No.CXY1348(2))the.GraduateInovation Project of Northwest University(Grant No.YZZ12093)the Seience and Technology Program of Educational Committee,of Shaanxi Province of China(Grant No.12JK0729).
文摘Recently,the simplified spherical harmonics equations(SP)model has at tracted much att entionin modeling the light propagation in small tissue ggeometriesat visible and near-infrared wave-leng ths.In this paper,we report an eficient numerical method for fluorescence moleeular tom-ography(FMT)that combines the advantage of SP model and adaptive hp finite elementmethod(hp-FEM).For purposes of comparison,hp-FEM and h-FEM are,respectively applied tothe reconstruction pro cess with diffusion approximation and SPs model.Simulation experiments on a 3D digital mouse atlas and physical experiments on a phantom are designed to evaluate thereconstruction methods in terms of the location and the reconstructed fluorescent yield.Theexperimental results demonstrate that hp-FEM with SPy model,yield more accurate results thanh-FEM with difusion approximation model does.The phantom experiments show the potentialand feasibility of the proposed approach in FMT applications.
