Sensitivity of laser opto-acoustic imaging in detection of small deeply embedded tumors

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 981-988

  Esenaliev, Rinat O ^a,b,c,d   Karabutov, Alexander A ^a,e   Oraevsky, Alexander A ^a,c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF SPECTROSCOPY   (Russian Federation)

^d Biomedical Engineering Center   (United States)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f Biomedical Engineering Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER; CANCER DETECTION; LASER OPTOACOUSTIC IMAGING; NEAR INFRARED SPECTRAL RANGE; PHANTOM TISSUE; TUMORS;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; CARCINOGENS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT SCATTERING; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

EID: 0033309409     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.796320     Document Type: Article

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