2D line-scan photoacoustic imaging of absorbers in a scattering tissue phantom

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4256, Issue , 2001, Pages 34-42

  Beard, P C ^a   Mills, T N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedical; Fabry perot sensor; Imaging; Photoacoustic; Thermoacoustic; Ultrasound array

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTODIODES; TISSUE;

FABRY PEROT SENSOR; PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING; ULTRASOUND ARRAY;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

EID: 0034875735     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.429319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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