title: Transcutaneous fluorescent imaging with a depth-dependent point spread function.
abstract: The transcutaneous fluorescent imaging (TFI) method was applied to the imaging of a small experimental animal such as a rat. The feasibility of the functional imaging in TFI was verified. To make this method more practical, a technique of scattering suppression was proposed. The depth-dependent PSF was derived as an analytical solution in a closed form. The applicability of this technique to the functional TFI and its usefulness were demonstrated in animal experiments.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0814 Japan.
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tochio
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kato