RF-induced thermoacoustic tomography

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1211-1212

  Xu, Minghua ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave; Thermoacoustic; Tomography

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION GENERATORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROWAVES; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

BACKPROJECTION METHOD; RADIOFREQUENCY; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036906670     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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