Thermoacoustic and photoacoustic tomography of thick biological tissues toward breast imaging

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 559-565

  Ku, Geng ^a   Fornage, Bruno D ^b   Jin, Xing ^a   Xu, Minghua ^a   Hunt, Kelly K ^b   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BLOOD; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; CHICKEN; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; MASTECTOMY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 26844581295     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153303460500400509     Document Type: Article

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