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http://dx.doi.org/10.9718/JBER.2011.32.2.085

Development of Correction Technologies for Quantification of Photon Measurement in Bio-Luminescence Image  

Tak, Yoon-Oh (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital)
Kim, Hyeon-Sik (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital)
Park, Hyeong-Ju (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital)
Choi, Heung-Kook (Department of Computer Science, Inje University)
Choi, Eun-Seo (Department of Physics, Chosun University)
Hann, S.-Wook (Korea Photonics Technology Institute)
Lee, Byeong-Il (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital)
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Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research / v.32, no.2, 2011 , pp. 85-92 More about this Journal
Abstract
Bioluminescence imaging (BLI) is the most sensitive animal imaging technique for molecular imaging research. Generally, highly sensitive CCD is used to detect an optical probe introduced in a living mouse. However, in many cases, the light signal emitted from a probe is too small to detect because it is scattered and attenuated by the tissue prior to being detected. The problem is that scattering and attenuation not only inhibit accurate measurement but also make image quality down. Thus we introduced a new method to reduce noise by using property of CCD and method to improve image quality of bioluminescence image by using two steps Gaussian blurring.
Keywords
bioluminescence image; CCD noise correction; Gaussian blur; photon quantification;
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