Photoacoustic ultrasound (PAUS)—Reconstruction tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 1605-1609

  Kruger, Robert A ^a   Liu, Pingyu ^a   Fang, Yuncai Richard ^a   Appledorn, C Robert ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

diagnostic imaging; photoacoustic ultrasound; photoacoustics; reconstruction tomography; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; ULTRASONICS;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTIONS; SCATTERING MEDIUM; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; B SCAN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING;

EID: 0028882213     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597429     Document Type: Article

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