Thermoacoustic tomography forward modeling with the spectral element method

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 4-12

  Lim, Kim Hwa ^a   Lee, Joon Ho ^a   Liu, Qing Huo ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Forward modeling; Spectral element method; Thermoacoustic tomography

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; THERMOACOUSTICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; FORWARD MODELING; HIGH ORDER BASIS FUNCTIONS; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; PERFECTLY-MATCHED LAYER ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 37549064365     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2805478     Document Type: Article

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