Correction of the effects of acoustic heterogeneity on thermoacoustic tomography using transmission ultrasound tomography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6086, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Jin, Xing ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a Texas A M University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic heterogeneity; Acoustic speed; Thermoacoustic tomography; Time of flight; Transmission ultrasound tomography

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC HETEROGENEITY; ACOUSTIC SPEED; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY (TAT); TIME-OF-FLIGHT; TRANSMISSION ULTRASOUND TOMOGRAPHY;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

EID: 33646174252     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.645104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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