Photoacoustic generation of focused ultrasonic pulses with predefined temporal profiles including quasi-unipolar pressure pulses

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6856, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Maslov, Konstantin ^a   Zhang, Hao F ^b   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

Author keywords

Bio effects of ultrasound; Photoacoustics; Ultrasound modulated optical tomography

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; ACOUSTICS WAVES; BIO-EFFECT OF ULTRASOUND; BIOEFFECT; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; IMMERSION LIQUIDS; PRESSURE PULSE; TEMPORAL PROFILE; ULTRASONIC PULSE; ULTRASOUND-MODULATED OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

EID: 42149144703     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.763972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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