Exact frequency-domain reconstruction for thermoacoustic tomography - II: Cylindrical geometry

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 829-833

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

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cylindrical; Frequency domain reconstruction; Thermoacoustic tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SCANNING; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY (TAT);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SWINE; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROWAVES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036628477     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2002.801171     Document Type: Article

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