title: Combined optical and fluorescence imaging for breast cancer detection and diagnosis.
abstract: In this article, we present a novel approach that combines the best aspects of both endogenous optical imaging and exogenous fluorescent lifetime and yield imaging for breast cancer detection and diagnosis. Using this approach, spatial distributions of optical properties, fluorescence lifetime, and yield in tissue can be reconstructed from measured excitation and emission data at the surface of the breast tissue by regularized inverse algorithms. We show images from simulated data, as well as images from experimental data using tissue-like phantom materials in the laboratory.
authors: Biomedical Optics Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, SC 29634-1911, USA.
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Jiang
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Ramesh
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Bartlett
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D005453:Fluorescence; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D008954:Models, Biological; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D011247:Pregnancy