Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 45, Issue 3, 307005(2018)

Research Progress of Fluorescence Molecular Tomography in Image Resconstruction

Deng Yong1,2 and Luo Qingming1,2、*
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    Comparisons of fluorescence intensity on CCD detectors among pfMC model, dfMC model, and phantom experiments
    (a)(e) Simulated models; (b)(f) reconstructed results of IRL2 regularization; (c)(g) reconstructed results obtained by common L1 regularization; (d)(h) reconstructed results obtained by IRL1
    • Table 1. Comparisons of several deterministic models used in FMT

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      Table 1. Comparisons of several deterministic models used in FMT

      ItemSpherical harmonics approximationSimplified sphericalharmonics approximationDiscrete ordinates method
      P1P3SP3SN
      MethodRadiance isexpanded tothe first orderRadiance isexpanded to thethird orderReplace the 1D derivativeswith their 3D counterpartsFull solid angle of 4π isdivided to some number ofdiscrete angular intervals
      ScopeTissue with highalbedo, far-field lightdistributionNo limitationsNo limitationsTissue with homogeneityor weak heterogeneity
      ComputationalaccuracyGoodBetterBetterBetter
      ComputationalcomplexitySmallBigMiddleBig
    • Table 2. Comparisons of several fluorescence MC models used in FMT

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      Table 2. Comparisons of several fluorescence MC models used in FMT

      ItemsfMCafMCmfMCpfMCdfMC
      AssumptionNoneBorn approximationBorn approximationBorn approximationNone
      ComputationalaccuracyExcellentGoodGoodGoodBest
      ComputationalefficiencyPoorGoodPoorBestBest
      Space complexitySmallBigHugeMiddleMiddle
    • Table 3. Direct regularization method and main optimization algorithms used in FMT

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      Table 3. Direct regularization method and main optimization algorithms used in FMT

      ItemTikhonov regularizationSparsity-promoting regularizationTotal variation regularization
      TermL2 normL1 normLp(0<p<1) normSeminorm
      ScopeNo limitationsSparsely spatialdistribution offluorophoresSparsely spatialdistribution offluorophoresNo limitations
      AdvantageDifferentiableobjective functionRetaining thehigh-frequencyinformationStronger effect ofsparsity than L1Retaining theedge feature
      DisadvantageFiltering out the highfrequency informationand yielding smoothreconstructionsNon-differentiableobjective function andcomplex implementNon-differentiableobjective function andcomplex implementCreating the staircaseeffect and non- differentiableobjective function
      Main optimizationalgorithmGauss-Newton,conjugate gradient,Levenberg-MarquardtRestarted nonlinearconjugate gradient,homotopy, and split BregmanMajorization-MinimizationNewtontype iterations,augmented Lagrangian split,and split Bregman
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    Received: Nov. 1, 2017

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 6, 2018

    The Author Email: Qingming Luo (qluo@mail.hust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/CJL201845.0307005

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