In vivo photoacoustic imaging of blood vessels using an extreme-narrow aperture sensor

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 343-346

  Kolkman, Roy G M ^a   Hondebrink, Erwin ^a   Steenbergen, Wiendelt ^a   De Mul, Frits F M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; Blood; Photoacoustic effects; Piezoelectric devices; Tomography

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; LASER PULSES; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PIZOELECTRIC DOUBLE RING DETECTOR;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0242577449     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.813302     Document Type: Article

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