Optoacoustic imaging with improved synthetic focusing

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5697, Issue , 2005, Pages 255-262

  Liao, Chao Kang ^a   Li, Meng Lin ^a   Li, Pai Chi ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Backward optoacoustic image; Coherence factor; Focusing technique; Photoacoustic; Synthesize aperture

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; DATA ACQUISITION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FOCUSING; LASER BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

BACKWARD OPTOACOUSTIC IMAGE; COHERENCE FACTORS; FOCUSING TECHNIQUE; SYNTHESIZE APERTURE;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 23244453344     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.591052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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