Journal article
Bioluminescence tomography: Biomedical background, mathematical theory, and numerical approximation
Journal of computational mathematics, Vol.26(3), pp.324-335
05/01/2008
PMCID: PMC2898173
PMID: 20617105
Abstract
Over the last couple of years molecular imaging has been rapidly developed to study physiological and pathological processes in vivo at the cellular and molecular levels. Among molecular imaging modalities, optical imaging stands out for its unique advantages, especially performance and cost-effectiveness. Bioluminescence tomography (BLT) is an emerging optical imaging mode with promising biomedical advantages. In this survey paper, we explain the biomedical significance of BLT, summarize theoretical results on the analysis and numerical solution of a diffusion based BLT model, and comment on a few extensions for the study of BLT.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Bioluminescence tomography: Biomedical background, mathematical theory, and numerical approximation
- Creators
- Weimin Han - Univ Iowa, Dept Math, Iowa City, IA 52242 USAGe Wang - Virginia Tech - Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering & Sciences
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of computational mathematics, Vol.26(3), pp.324-335
- PMID
- 20617105
- PMCID
- PMC2898173
- NLM abbreviation
- J Comput Math
- ISSN
- 0254-9409
- eISSN
- 1991-7139
- Publisher
- GLOBAL SCIENCE PRESS
- Number of pages
- 12
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/2008
- Academic Unit
- Mathematics
- Record Identifier
- 9984240764402771
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