Abstract
This chapter discusses diffuse optical tomography. We present the origins of this method in terms of spectroscopic analysis of tissue using near-infrared light and its extension to an imaging modality. Models for light propagation at the macroscopic and mesoscopic scale are developed from the radiative transfer equation (RTE). Both time- and frequency-domain systems are discussed. Some formal results based on Green’s function models are presented, and numerical methods are described based on discrete finite element method (FEM) models and a Bayesian framework for image reconstruction. Finally, some open questions are discussed.
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Arridge, S.R., Kaipio, J.P., Kolehmainen, V., Tarvainen, T. (2015). Optical Imaging. In: Scherzer, O. (eds) Handbook of Mathematical Methods in Imaging. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0790-8_21
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