Ultrasound-modulated optical tomography with intense acoustic bursts

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1615-1623

  Zemp, Roger J ^a,b   Kim, Chulhong ^a,b   Wang, Lihong V ^a,b  

^a Texas A M University   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; IMAGE ACQUISITION; LIGHT MODULATION; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC BURSTS; IMAGE DEGRADATION; MECHANICAL CONTRAST; RADIATION FORCE;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34247468554     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.001615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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