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ArticleJournal of medical signals and sensors

Sensitivity Uniformity Ratio as a New Index to Optimize the Scanning Geometry for Fluorescent Molecular Tomography.

Anita Ebrahimpour, Seyed Salman Zakariaee, Marjaneh Hejazi

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Anita EbrahimpourDepartment of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Seyed Salman ZakariaeeDepartment of Medical Physics, Faculty of Paramedical Sciences, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran.
Marjaneh HejaziDepartment of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

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Abstract

backgroundMolecular fluorescence imaging is widely used as a noninvasive method to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms. In the optical imaging system, the sensitivity is the change of the intensity received by the detector for the changed optical characteristics (fluorescence) in each sample point. Sensitivity could be considered as a function of imaging geometry. A favor imaging system has a uniform and high-sensitivity coefficient for each point of the sample. In this study, a new parameter was proposed which the optimal angle between the source and detector could be determined based on this parameter.

methodsFor evaluation of the new method, a two-dimensional mesh with a radius of 20 mm and 5133 nodes was built. In each reconstruction, 0.5-mm fluorescence heterogeneity with a contrast-to-purpose ratio of fluorescence yield of 10 was randomly added at different points of the sample. The source and the detector were simulated in different geometric conditions. The calculations were performed using the NIRFAST and MATLAB software. The relationship between mean squared error (MSE) and sensitivity uniformity ratio (SUR) was evaluated using the correlation coefficient. Finally, based on the new index, an optimal geometrical strategy was introduced.

resultsThere was a negative correlation coefficient (

conclusionThe SUR is a powerful computational tool which could be used to determine the optimal angles between the source and detector for each scanning depth.

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Fluorescent molecular tomographygeometry optimizationNIRFASTsensitivity matrixsensitivity uniformity ratio

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PMID30967989
PMCPMC6419568

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