Pulsed-microwave-induced thermoacoustic tomography: Filtered backprojection in a circular measurement configuration

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1661-1669

  Xu, Minghua ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Filtered backprojection; Imaging; Microwave; Thermoacoustics; Tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; THERMOACOUSTICS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

CIRCULAR MEASUREMENTS; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION METHODS; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; THERMO-ACOUSTIC WAVES; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY;

MICROWAVE FILTERS;

ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0036703404     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1493778     Document Type: Article

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