title: Thermal computed tomography for biological tissue reconstruction based on radiation balance.
abstract: In this paper, a thermal computed tomography (TCT) for structural reconstruction of optical-thin biological tissues is proposed, which is based on a radiation balance between adjacent infinitesimals. A theoretical analysis has been carried out and several influential factors have been analyzed for the reconstructions of a physical model in numerical simulations. The simulation results give a criterion of how to choose an appropriate set of parameters to reconstruct biological tissues with the TCT. Besides, a TCT system was established and a validation experiment was carried out. The studies of both numerical simulations and experiments have verified the feasibility of the proposed TCT and give a valuable reference for the future applications of TCT in biology.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Space Active Opto-Electronics Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China Key Laboratory of Nondestructive Test (Ministry of Education), Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, China.
authors.forename: Xiong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wan
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Huaming
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004581:Electronics; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D007259:Infrared Rays; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D013696:Temperature; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014741:Video Recording
keywords: Thermal computed tomography; biological tissues; numerical simulation