Model based reconstruction for simultaneously imaging cerebral blood flow and De-oxygen hemoglobin distribution

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009:2009:3236-93. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333603.

Abstract

Laser speckle imaging (LSI) and optical intrinsic signal (OIS) imaging are shown to produce high resolution information of cerebral blood flow(CBF) and de-oxygen hemoglobin(dHb) respectively. However, the cortex curvature and non-uniform illumination always result in the inhomo-geneous impact and thus distort the CBF and dHb results. In this paper, we propose to extract both CBF and dHb images from raw speckle images. A parametric model for such inhomogeneity is estimated by adaptive window median-mean filtering and curve fitting technique to reconstruct the CBF and dHb image.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Animals
  • Biomedical Engineering / methods
  • Cerebrovascular Circulation / physiology*
  • Equipment Design
  • Female
  • Hemoglobins / chemistry*
  • Hemoglobins / metabolism
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Lasers
  • Light
  • Lighting
  • Normal Distribution
  • Oxygen / chemistry*
  • Rats
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley

Substances

  • Hemoglobins
  • Oxygen