A novel photoacoustic tomography based on a time-resolved technique and an acoustic lens imaging system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2671-2680

  He, Yongheng ^a   Tang, Zhilie ^a   Chen, Zhanxu ^a   Wan, Wei ^a   Li, Jianghua ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ALGORITHMS; ARRAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC LENS IMAGING SYSTEM; MULTI-ELEMENT LINEAR ARRAY TRANSDUCER; OPTICAL PULSE; PHOTOACOUSTIC (PA) TOMOGRAPHY;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LENS; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TOMOGRAPHY; YAG LASER;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; LENSES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 33646520173     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/10/019     Document Type: Article

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