Mitigating artifacts via half-time reconstruction in thermoacoustic tomography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5697, Issue , 2005, Pages 263-270

  Anastasio, Mark A ^a   Zhang, Jin ^a   Pan, Xiaochuan ^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

Generalized Radon transform; Image reconstruction; Photoacoustic tomography; Thermoacoustic tomography

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING APPLICATIONS; GENERALIZED RADON TRANSFORM; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY (TAT);

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PROBLEM SOLVING; TUMORS;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23244460380     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.589190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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