Photoacoustic tomography using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer as an acoustic line detector

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 3352-3358

  Paltauf, Guenther ^a   Nuster, Robert ^a   Haltmeier, Markus ^b   Burgholzer, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c Upper Austrian Research GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER PULSES; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

ACOUSTIC LINE DETECTORS; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; RADON TRANSFORM;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34547361271     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.003352     Document Type: Article

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