A photoacoustic imaging system employing a curved-phased ultrasonic array and parallel electronics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6086, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Maurudis, Anastasios ^a   Huang, Fei ^a   Guo, Puyun ^a   Yan, Shikui ^a   Castillo, Diego ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^b   Zhu, Quing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging systems; Laser generated ultrasound; Optoacoustics; Parallel electronics; Photoacoustics; Thermoacoustics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DATA ACQUISITION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER-GENERATED ULTRASOUND; PARALLEL ELECTRONICS; PHOTOACOUSTIC SIGNAL DETECTION;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646172356     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.648500     Document Type: Conference Paper

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