Multiple-bandwidth photoacoustic tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1329-1338

  Ku, Geng ^a   Wang, Xueding ^a   Stoica, George ^b   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BRAIN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; LASER PULSES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PROBLEM SOLVING; SAMPLING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; PHANTOM SAMPLES; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULAR VESSELS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OPTICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VIBRATION;

EID: 1942520968     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/7/018     Document Type: Article

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