High-resolution thermoacoustic tomography of biological tissue

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4618, Issue , 2002, Pages 95-98

  Xu, Minghua ^a   Wang, Xueding ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Thermoacoustic imaging; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MICROWAVES; TISSUE;

THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036400213     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.469852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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