Ultrasonic attenuation correction in optoacoustic tomography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6086, Issue , 2006, Pages

  La Rivière, Patrick J ^a   Zhang, Jin ^b   Anastasio, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Image reconstruction; Optoacoustic tomography; Photoacoustic tomography; Thermoacoustic tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT ATTENUATION; NARROW-BAND TRANSDUCERS; OPTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC ATTENUATION;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33646195863     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.647673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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