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        <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">IJBI</journal-id>
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            <journal-title>International Journal of Biomedical Imaging</journal-title>
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        <issn pub-type="epub">1687-4196</issn>
        <issn pub-type="ppub">1687-4188</issn>
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            <publisher-name>Hindawi Publishing Corporation</publisher-name>
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        <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">086741</article-id>
        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1155/2007/86741</article-id>

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                <subject>Research Article</subject>
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            <article-title>Experimental Study on Bioluminescence Tomography with Multimodality Fusion</article-title>
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            <contrib contrib-type="author" id="U52758637">
                <name>
                    <surname>Lv</surname>
                    <given-names>Yujie</given-names>
                </name>
                <email>yujie.lv@ia.ac.cn</email>
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                    <sup>1</sup>
                </xref>
            </contrib>
            <contrib contrib-type="author" id="U19467567">
                <name>
                    <surname>Tian</surname>
                    <given-names>Jie</given-names>
                </name>
                <email>tian@ieee.org</email>
                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="I1">
                    <sup>1, 2</sup>
                </xref>
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            </contrib>
            <contrib contrib-type="author" id="U16957409">
                <name>
                    <surname>Cong</surname>
                    <given-names>Wenxiang</given-names>
                </name>
                <email>wxcong@gmail.com</email>
                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="I3">
                    <sup>3</sup>
                </xref>
            </contrib>
            <contrib contrib-type="author" id="U41031059">
                <name>
                    <surname>Wang</surname>
                    <given-names>Ge</given-names>
                </name>
                <email>wangg@vt.edu</email>
                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="I3">
                    <sup>3</sup>
                </xref>
            </contrib>
            <contrib contrib-type="Academic Editor" id="U53146768">
                <name>
                    <surname>Jiang</surname>
                    <given-names>Ming</given-names>
                </name>
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            <sup>1</sup>
            <addr-line>Medical Image Processing Group</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Institute of Automation</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Chinese Academy of Sciences</addr-line>
            <addr-line>P.O. Box 2728</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Beijing 100080</addr-line>
            <country>China</country>
            <ext-link ext-link-type="domain-name">cas.cn</ext-link>
        </aff>
        <aff id="I2">
            <sup>2</sup>
            <addr-line>Life Science Center</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Xidian University</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Xian, Shaanxi 710071</addr-line>
            <country>China</country>
            <ext-link ext-link-type="domain-name">xidian.edu.cn</ext-link>
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        <aff id="I3">
            <sup>3</sup>
            <addr-line>Division of Biomedical Imaging</addr-line>
            <addr-line>VT-WFU School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Blacksburg, VA 24061</addr-line>
            <country>USA</country>
            <ext-link ext-link-type="domain-name">vt.edu</ext-link>
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        <pub-date pub-type="publication-year">
            <year>2007</year>
        </pub-date>
        <pub-date pub-type="archival-date">
            <day>10</day>
            <month>09</month>
            <year>2007</year>
        </pub-date>
        <volume>2007</volume>
        <history>
            <date date-type="received">
                <day>12</day>
                <month>03</month>
                <year>2007</year>
            </date>
            <date date-type="accepted">
                <day>01</day>
                <month>08</month>
                <year>2007</year>
            </date>
        </history>
        
        <permissions>
    <copyright-year>2007</copyright-year>
    <copyright-holder>Copyright &#x00A9; 2007 Yujie Lv et al.</copyright-holder>
    <license license-type="open-access"><license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the <ext-link xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</ext-link>, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p></license>
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<abstract>

            <p>To verify the influence of a priori information on the nonuniqueness problem of bioluminescence tomography (BLT), the multimodality imaging fusion based BLT experiment is performed by multiview noncontact detection mode, which incorporates the anatomical information obtained by the microCT scanner and the background optical properties based on diffuse reflectance measurements. In the reconstruction procedure, the utilization of adaptive finite element methods (FEMs) and a priori permissible source region refines the reconstructed results and improves numerical robustness and efficiency. The comparison between the absence and employment of a priori information shows that multimodality imaging fusion is essential to quantitative BLT reconstruction.</p>
        </abstract>
        
        
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