Thermoacoustic tomography with integrating area and line detectors

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1577-1583

  Burgholzer, Peter ^b,e   Hofer, Christian ^b   Paltauf, Günther ^c,f,g,h   Haltmeier, Markus ^d   Scherzer, Otmar ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b Upper Austrian Research GmbH   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UPPER AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^g Oregon Medical Laser Center   (United States)

^h University of Bern ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LENSES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; TOMOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC PRESSURE; LINE DETECTORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE (SAFT); THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 27644505322     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1516030     Document Type: Article

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