Thermoacoustic computed tomography-technical considerations

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1832-1837

  Kruger, Robert A ^a   Reinecke, Daniel R ^a   Kruger, Gabe A ^a  

^a OptoSonics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Mammography; Microwave imaging; Photoacoustic imaging; Thermoacoustic imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; MAMMOGRAPHY; THERMOACOUSTICS;

FILTERED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; MICROWAVE IMAGING; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; SOFT TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; THERMOACOUSTIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; THERMOACOUSTIC IMAGING; THERMOACOUSTIC SIGNALS;

TISSUE;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032860847     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598688     Document Type: Article

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