Analysis of a Numerical Method for Radiative Transfer Equation Based Bioluminescence Tomography

Analysis of a Numerical Method for Radiative Transfer Equation Based Bioluminescence Tomography

Year:    2016

Author:    Rongfang Gong, Joseph Eichholz, Xiaoliang Cheng, Weimin Han

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 34 (2016), Iss. 6 : pp. 648–670

Abstract

In the bioluminescence tomography (BLT) problem, one constructs quantitatively the bioluminescence source distribution inside a small animal from optical signals detected on the animal's body surface. The BLT problem is ill-posed and often the Tikhonov regularization is used to obtain stable approximate solutions. In conventional Tikhonov regularization, it is crucial to choose a proper regularization parameter to balance the accuracy and stability of approximate solutions. In this paper, a parameter-dependent coupled complex boundary method (CCBM) based Tikhonov regularization is applied to the BLT problem governed by the radiative transfer equation (RTE). By properly adjusting the parameter in the Robin boundary condition, we achieve one important property: the regularized solutions are uniformly stable with respect to the regularization parameter so that the regularization parameter can be chosen based solely on the consideration of the solution accuracy. The discrete-ordinate finite-element method is used to compute numerical solutions. Numerical results are provided to illustrate the performance of the proposed method.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1607-m2016-0515

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 34 (2016), Iss. 6 : pp. 648–670

Published online:    2016-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    23

Keywords:    Bioluminescence tomography radiative transfer equation Tikhonov regularization coupled complex boundary method convergence.

Author Details

Rongfang Gong

Joseph Eichholz

Xiaoliang Cheng

Weimin Han

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