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PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
Volume 50, Issue 17, Pages 4225-4241Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/17/021
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- NCI NIH HHS [R25 CA098010, R25 CA098010:01] Funding Source: Medline
- NIBIB NIH HHS [R01-EB001458, R01 EB001458] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDCR NIH HHS [DE-FC02-02ER63520] Funding Source: Medline
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The feasibility and limits in performing tomographic bioluminescence imaging with a combined optical-PET (OPET) system were explored by simulating its image formation process. A micro-MRI based virtual mouse phantom was assigned appropriate tissue optical properties to each of its segmented internal organs at wavelengths spanning the emission spectrum of the firefly luciferase at 37 degrees C. The TOAST finite-element code was employed to simulate the diffuse transport of photons emitted from bioluminescence sources in the mouse. OPET measurements were simulated for single-point, two-point and distributed bioluminescence sources located in different organs such as the liver, the kidneys and the gut. An expectation maximization code was employed to recover the intensity and location of these simulated sources. It was found that spectrally resolved measurements were necessary in order to perform tomographic bioluminescence imaging. The true location of emission sources could be recovered if the mouse background optical properties were known a priori. The assumption of a homogeneous optical property background proved inadequate for describing photon transport in optically heterogeneous tissues and led to inaccurate source localization in the reconstructed images. The simulation results pointed out specific methodological challenges that need to be addressed before a practical implementation of OPET-based bioluminescence tomography is achieved.
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