Paper Info
Title
Combination of boundary element method and finite element method in diffuse optical tomography.
Abstract
This paper presents a new numerical method for optical tomography: the combined boundary element/finite element method (BEM-FEM), designed to tackle reconstructions in layered turbid media. The BEM-FEM focuses on the region of interest by creating a volume mesh and reconstructing in this region only. All other regions are treated as piecewise-constant in a surface-integral approach. We validate the model in concentric spheres, with different positions of the volume-integral treated area and found it compared well with an analytical result. We then performed functional imaging of the neonates motor cortex in vivo, in a reconstruction restricted to the brain, both with FEM and BEM-FEM. These results show the effectiveness of the BEMFEM in situations where the organ of interest is surrounded by superficial layers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/TBME.2010.2055868
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
diffuse optical tomography,optical tomography,organ,superficial layers,volume mesh,neonate motor cortex,inverse problems,boundary element method,boundary-elements methods,image reconstruction,bem,finite element method,fem,finite element analysis,brain,functional imaging,boundary element method (bem),brain models,finite element method (fem),diffusion approximation (da),medical image processing
Boundary knot method,Computer science,Mathematical analysis,Volume mesh,Artificial intelligence,Optical tomography,Iterative reconstruction,Computer vision,Diffuse optical imaging,Optics,Finite element method,Boundary element method,Numerical analysis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
57
11
1558-2531
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Josias Pierrick Elisee100.34
Adam Gibson200.68
Simon Arridge300.34