Ring-based ultrasonic virtual point detector with applications to photoacoustic tomography

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 25, 2007, Pages

  Yang, Xinmai ^a   Li, Meng N ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

APERTURE EFFECTS; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; REAL POINT DETECTORS; RING-BASED ULTRASONIC VIRTUAL POINT DETECTORS;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 34547265203     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2749856     Document Type: Article

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