Thermoacoustic CT with radio waves: A medical imaging paradigm

Radiology

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 275-278

  Kruger, Robert A ^a,b   Kopecky, Kenyon K ^a   Aisen, Alex M ^a   Reinecke, Daniel R ^b   Kruger, Gabe A ^b   Kiser Jr , William L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OptoSonics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), experimental

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; GENERATOR; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KIDNEY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SWINE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032958862     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.211.1.r99ap05275     Document Type: Article

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