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    Area of Science:

    • Biomedical Optics
    • Neuroimaging
    • Medical Physics

    Background:

    • Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) noninvasively measures hemodynamic changes using near-infrared light for brain function studies.
    • DOT reconstruction is ill-posed due to light propagation complexities.
    • Sparsity regularization shows promise over Tikhonov regularization for DOT.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel algorithm for clustered sparsity reconstruction (CSR) in DOT.
    • To leverage the structured nature of functional brain activity for improved image reconstruction.
    • To enhance the accuracy of reconstructing in vivo absorption changes during brain function.

    Main Methods:

    • Exploitation of structured sparsity in diffuse optical images.
    • Development of a clustered sparsity reconstruction (CSR) algorithm.
    • Validation through numerical simulations, phantom experiments, and human in vivo measurements.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed CSR algorithm demonstrated superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
    • Numerical simulations and phantom experiments confirmed the effectiveness of CSR.
    • Human in vivo measurements validated the advantages of the CSR method for brain imaging.

    Conclusions:

    • The CSR algorithm offers enhanced accuracy for DOT image reconstruction.
    • This method effectively utilizes the clustered nature of functional brain activation.
    • CSR represents a significant advancement for noninvasive brain function studies using DOT.