Laser optoacoustic tomography of layered tissues: Signal processing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2979, Issue , 1997, Pages 59-70

  Oraevsky, Alexander A ^a   Esenaliev, Rinat O ^a   Karabutov, Alexander ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbed energy distribution; Conditions of temporal stress confinement; Imaging; Laser induced pressure; Piezoelectric transducer; Transient stress

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ATTENUATION; DIFFRACTION; ENDOSCOPY; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT REFLECTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

LASER OPTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031288896     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.280297     Document Type: Conference Paper

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