Thermoacoustic tomography - Ultrasound attenuation artifacts

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 2604-2606

  Patch, S K ^a   Haltmeier, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Attenuation; Beam hardening; Biomedical acoustic imaging; Inverse problems; Optoacoustic; Photoacoustic; Radon transform; Thermoacoustic

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

BEAM HARDENING; BIOMEDICAL ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC; RADON TRANSFORM;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 38649085344     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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