Thermoacoustic tomography - Consistency conditions and the partial scan problem

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2305-2315

  Patch, Sarah K ^a  

^a GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

NEAR-INFRARED RADIATION (NIR); RADIOFREQUENCY (RF); THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND (US);

TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIOFREQUENCY; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; WEIGHT;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THERMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 3042781845     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/11/013     Document Type: Article

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