Born Normalization for Fluorescence Optical Projection Tomography for Whole Heart Imaging

DOI :

10.3791/1389-v

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June 2nd, 2009

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Claudio Vinegoni^1,2, Daniel Razansky³, Jose-Luiz Figueiredo^1,2, Lyuba Fexon^1,2, Misha Pivovarov^1,2, Matthias Nahrendorf^1,2, Vasilis Ntziachristos³, Ralph Weissleder^1,2

¹Center for Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, ²Center for Systems Biology, MGH - Massachusetts General Hospital, ³Institute for Biological and Medical Imaging, Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Center Munich

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We suggest a Born normalized approach for Optical Projection Tomography (BnOPT) that accounts for the absorption properties of imaged samples to obtain accurate and quantitative fluorescence tomographic reconstructions. We use the proposed algorithm to reconstruct the fluorescence molecular probe distribution within small animal organs.