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Incorporating reflection boundary conditions in the Neumann series radiative transport equation: application to photon propagation and reconstruction in diffuse optical imaging

Jha, AK; Zhu, Y; Arridge, S; Wong, DF; Rahmim, A; (2018) Incorporating reflection boundary conditions in the Neumann series radiative transport equation: application to photon propagation and reconstruction in diffuse optical imaging. Biomedical Optics Express , 9 (4) pp. 1389-1407. 10.1364/BOE.9.001389. Green open access

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Abstract

We propose a formalism to incorporate boundary conditions in a Neumann-series-based radiative transport equation. The formalism accurately models the reflection of photons at the tissue-external medium interface using Fresnel’s equations. The formalism was used to develop a gradient descent-based image reconstruction technique. The proposed methods were implemented for 3D diffuse optical imaging. In computational studies, it was observed that the average root-mean-square error (RMSE) for the output images and the estimated absorption coefficients reduced by 38% and 84%, respectively, when the reflection boundary conditions were incorporated. These results demonstrate the importance of incorporating boundary conditions that model the reflection of photons at the tissue-external medium interface.

Type: Article
Title: Incorporating reflection boundary conditions in the Neumann series radiative transport equation: application to photon propagation and reconstruction in diffuse optical imaging
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.9.001389
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.9.001389
Language: English
Additional information: This is the published version of record under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10047677
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