Molecular imaging(MI)is a novel imaging discipline that has been continuously developed in recent years.It combines biochemistry,multimodal imaging,biomathematics,bioinformatics,cell&molecular physiology,biophysic...Molecular imaging(MI)is a novel imaging discipline that has been continuously developed in recent years.It combines biochemistry,multimodal imaging,biomathematics,bioinformatics,cell&molecular physiology,biophysics,and pharmacology,and it provides a new technology platform for the early diagnosis and quantitative analysis of diseases,treatment monitoring and evaluation,and the development of comprehensive physiology.Fluorescence Molecular Tomography(FMT)is a type of optical imaging modality in MI that captures the three-dimensional distribution of fluorescence within a biological tissue generated by a specific molecule of fluorescent material within a biological tissue.Compared with other optical molecular imaging methods,FMT has the characteristics of high sensitivity,low cost,and safety and reliability.It has become the research frontier and research hotspot of optical molecular imaging technology.This paper took an overview of the recent methodology advances in FMT,mainly focused on the photon propagation model of FMT based on the radiative transfer equation(RTE),and the reconstruction problem solution consist of forward problem and inverse problem.We introduce the detailed technologies utilized in reconstruction of FMT.Finally,the challenges in FMT were discussed.This survey aims at summarizing current research hotspots in methodology of FMT,fromwhich future research may benefit.展开更多
基金supported by Ministry of Science and Technology of China under Grant No.2017YFA0205200,2016YFC0103702National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.81227901,81527805‘Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No.GJJSTD20170004’Beijing Municipal Science&Technology Commission No.Z161100002616022by the General Financial Grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant 2017 M620952.
文摘Molecular imaging(MI)is a novel imaging discipline that has been continuously developed in recent years.It combines biochemistry,multimodal imaging,biomathematics,bioinformatics,cell&molecular physiology,biophysics,and pharmacology,and it provides a new technology platform for the early diagnosis and quantitative analysis of diseases,treatment monitoring and evaluation,and the development of comprehensive physiology.Fluorescence Molecular Tomography(FMT)is a type of optical imaging modality in MI that captures the three-dimensional distribution of fluorescence within a biological tissue generated by a specific molecule of fluorescent material within a biological tissue.Compared with other optical molecular imaging methods,FMT has the characteristics of high sensitivity,low cost,and safety and reliability.It has become the research frontier and research hotspot of optical molecular imaging technology.This paper took an overview of the recent methodology advances in FMT,mainly focused on the photon propagation model of FMT based on the radiative transfer equation(RTE),and the reconstruction problem solution consist of forward problem and inverse problem.We introduce the detailed technologies utilized in reconstruction of FMT.Finally,the challenges in FMT were discussed.This survey aims at summarizing current research hotspots in methodology of FMT,fromwhich future research may benefit.
