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In this work, we present reconstruction frameworks and a detailed numerical study to demonstrate the use of the\n                    <jats:italic>\u03b4<\/jats:italic>\n                    -SP\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    approximation for mesoscopic fluorescence optical tomography applications in reflectance-mode imaging in the near-source region. Comparisons are presented with the standard SP\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    approximation to highlight the improvements afforded by the use of the\n                    <jats:italic>\u03b4<\/jats:italic>\n                    -SP\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    approximation. We investigate the effect of improved modeling using two different reconstruction schemes, namely, the regularizing Levenberg\u2013Marquardt and a total-variation regularization scheme with measurement data obtained via Monte Carlo simulations over a wide range of test cases. With the\n                    <jats:italic>\u03b4<\/jats:italic>\n                    -SP\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    approximation, better localization, improved volume recovery, and consistent estimates across different reconstruction schemes are observed. The improvement is significant for test cases with two objects, shallow domain as well as oblique incidence scenarios, where the standard SP\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    approximation consistently fails across both the reconstruction schemes.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1364\/josaa.593274","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,28]],"date-time":"2026-07-28T15:00:06Z","timestamp":1785250806000},"page":"E31","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1364\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Near-source imaging with\n                    <i>\n                      \u03b4-SP\n                      <sub>N<\/sub>\n                    <\/i>\n                    approximation based fluorescence optical tomography"],"prefix":"10.1364","volume":"43","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7076-6069","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Nishigandha","family":"Patil","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/03g5ew477","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}]},{"name":"The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2726-3399","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Naren","family":"Naik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/03g5ew477","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}]},{"name":"Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"285","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"josaa-43-9-E31-R1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"603","DOI":"10.1038\/nmeth.1483","type":"journal-article","volume":"7","author":"Ntziachristos","year":"2010","journal-title":"Nat. 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