Image reconstruction for photoacoustic scanning of tissue structures

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 31, 2000, Pages 5872-5883

  Hoelen, Christoph G A ^a   de Mul, Frits F M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONICS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC SCANNING;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0001680873     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.005872     Document Type: Article

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