Monkey brain cortex imaging by use of photoacoustic tomography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6856, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Yang, Xinmai ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; Monkey brain; Photoacoustic tomography

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; BRAIN CORTEX; EX-VIVO; IMAGES RECONSTRUCTION; INCIDENT ANGLES; MAIN STRUCTURE; MONKEY BRAIN; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND ATTENUATION; ULTRASOUND SIGNAL ATTENUATION;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 42149133145     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.762396     Document Type: Conference Paper

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