Time-domain reconstruction algorithms and numerical simulations for thermoacoustic tomography in various geometries

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1086-1099

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

^a Texas A M University   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Geometry; Imaging; Photoacoustics; Reconstruction; Thermoacoustics; Time domain; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS;

SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL SUMMATION; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HEAT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIO WAVES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0042819899     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2003.816081     Document Type: Article

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