Time-domain reconstruction for thermoacoustic tomography in a spherical geometry

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 814-822

  Xu, Minghua ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave; Reconstruction; Thermoacoustic; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SWINE; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROWAVES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036628475     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2002.801176     Document Type: Article

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