Patent ID: 8374409

Claim:
A method of processing a dataset, executable by a data processor, for reconstructing an image of an interior of a turbid medium using an image reconstruction algorithm, the dataset being obtained by detecting light emanating from a receiving volume as a result of coupling light from a light source into the receiving volume with the receiving volume comprising the turbid medium, the method comprising: changing the dataset into a further dataset satisfying an input assumption underlying the image reconstruction algorithm, the dataset having a measured trend as a function of a chosen variable, and the input assumption requiring the dataset to have a required trend as a function of the chosen variable, wherein changing the dataset into the further dataset comprises mapping the dataset onto the required trend; changing the further dataset into a contrast enhanced dataset by removing at least a part of the required trend from the further dataset; and communicating at least one of the further dataset and the contrast enhanced dataset to an image reconstruction unit for reconstructing the image using the image reconstruction algorithm.