Combined ultrasound and optoacoustic system for real-time high-contrast vascular imaging in vivo

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 436-440

  Niederhauser, Joël J ^a   Jaeger, Michael ^a   Lemor, Robert ^b   Weber, Peter ^b   Frenz, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Imaging; In vivo; Laser; Optoacoustic; Photo acoustic; Ultrasound; Vascular

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; Q SWITCHED LASERS; THERMOELASTICITY; TISSUE; ULTRASHORT PULSES; ULTRASONICS;

IN VIVO OPTOACOUSTIC IMAGES; OPTOACOUSTIC SYSTEMS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; VASCULAR IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD VESSEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY; VASCULARIZATION; VIDEORECORDING;

ACOUSTICS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 17444431595     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.843199     Document Type: Article

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