Exact frequency-domain reconstruction for thermoacoustic tomography - I: Planar geometry

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 823-828

  Xu, Yuan ^a   Feng, Dazi ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fourier domain reconstruction; Planar; Thermoacoustic tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVOLUTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SENSORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY (TAT);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROWAVES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036628476     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2002.801172     Document Type: Article

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