Breast imaging with time-reversed ultrasound

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6147, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Huang, Lianjie ^a   Duric, Nebojsa ^b   Littrup, Peter ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Backpropagation; Breast imaging; Time reversed mirror; Time reversed ultrasound; Tomography; Wave equation

Indexed keywords

BREAST IMAGING; TIME-REVERSED MIRROR; TIME-REVERSED ULTRASOUND; WAVE EQUATION;

BACKPROPAGATION; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745384789     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.659845     Document Type: Conference Paper

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