Title
Cerenkov luminescence tomography for in vivo radiopharmaceutical imaging.
Abstract
Cerenkov luminescence imaging (CLI) is a cost-effective molecular imaging tool for biomedical applications of radiotracers. The introduction of Cerenkov luminescence tomography (CLT) relative to planar CLI can be compared to the development of X-ray CT based on radiography. With CLT, quantitative and localized analysis of a radiopharmaceutical distribution becomes feasible. In this contribution, a feasibility study of in vivo radiopharmaceutical imaging in heterogeneous medium is presented. Coupled with a multimodal in vivo imaging system, this CLT reconstruction method allows precise anatomical registration of the positron probe in heterogeneous tissues and facilitates the more widespread application of radiotracers. Source distribution inside the small animal is obtained from CLT reconstruction. The experimental results demonstrated that CLT can be employed as an available in vivo tomographic imaging of charged particle emitters in a heterogeneous medium.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1155/2011/641618
Int. J. Biomedical Imaging
Keywords
Field
DocType
cerenkov luminescence tomography,heterogeneous tissue,vivo tomographic imaging,vivo imaging system,heterogeneous medium,cerenkov luminescence imaging,clt reconstruction,cost-effective molecular imaging tool,clt reconstruction method,vivo radiopharmaceutical imaging,bioinformatics,biomedical research
Nuclear medicine,Biomedical engineering,Computer science,In vivo,Radiography,Artificial intelligence,Molecular imaging,Computer vision,Tomographic reconstruction,Luminescence,Tomography,Positron,Preclinical imaging
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2011
1687-4196
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.91
1
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jianghong Zhong121.25
Chenghu Qin2217.30
Xin Yang324931.55
Shuping Zhu431.54
Xing Zhang51096.74
Jie Tian61475159.24