Development of a laser photothermoacoustic frequency-swept system for subsurface imaging: Theory and experiment

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3523-3533

  Fan, Ying ^a   Mandelis, Andreas ^a   Spirou, Gloria ^b   Vitkin, I Alex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SCANNING; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS;

FREQUENCY-DOMAIN (FD); PHOTO-THERMO-ACOUSTIC (PTA); SUBSURFACE FEATURES; TIME-OF-FLIGHT ACOUSTIC INFORMATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

RUBBER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LASER; LASER PHOTOTHERMOACOUSTIC FREQUENCY SWEPT SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOLID; TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME; TISSUE; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LASERS; LINEAR MODELS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 11144280539     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1819393     Document Type: Article

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