Publication: Design and development of a co-planar fluorescence and X-ray tomograph
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2008-10
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IEEE
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Non-contact Fluorescence Oiffuse Optical
Tomography (FOOT) is rapidly becoming an important tool for small animal research, since it is able to display the 30
distribution of near infrared fluorescent probes in the whole body. FOOT, like other functional and molecular imaging
techniques (PET, SPECT), lacks anatomical information, limiting the resolution of analyses of living systems. Furthermore,
anatomical information from the subject under study can be used as a priori information for the FOOT reconstruction algorithm to improve its performance. With these goals in mind, we have built a proof-of-concept FOOT-CT hybrid machine that combines the high-resolution anatomy of CT with the functional information provided by FOOT.
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Proceeding of: 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS '08), Dresden, Germany, 19-25 Oct. 2008
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2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, oct. 2008, p. 5412-5413