Half-Time Image Reconstruction in Thermoacoustic Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 199-210

  Anastasio, Mark A ^a   Zhang, Jin ^a   Pan, Xiaochuan ^b   Zou, Yu ^b   Ku, Geng ^c   Wang, Lihong V ^c  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; photoacoustic tomography; reflectivity tomography; spherical Radon transform; thermoacoustic tomography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 17444373112     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.839682     Document Type: Article

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