A deterministic approach to the adapted optode placement for illumination of highly scattering tissue

作者:Brunner Patricia*; Clason Christian; Freiberger Manuel; Scharfetter Hermann
来源:Biomedical Optics Express, 2012, 3(7): 1732-1743.
DOI:10.1364/BOE.3.001732

摘要

A novel approach is presented for computing optode placements that are adapted to specific geometries and tissue characteristics, e.g., in optical tomography and photodynamic cancer therapy. The method is based on optimal control techniques together with a sparsity-promoting penalty that favors pointwise solutions, yielding both locations and magnitudes of light sources. In contrast to current discrete approaches, the need for specifying an initial set of candidate configurations as well as the exponential increase in complexity with the number of optodes are avoided. This is demonstrated with computational examples from photodynamic therapy.