Optimizing image resolution in three-dimensional photoacoustic tomography with line detectors

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6856, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Paltauf, G ^a   Nuster, R ^a   Passler, K ^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

Optoacoustic; Thermoacoustic

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CURVE FITTING; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; PRESSURE; RADON; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC PRESSURE FIELD; ACOUSTO OPTICS; BEAM DIAMETERS; BEAM LENGTH; FINITE WIDTH; INITIAL PRESSURE; INVERSE RADON TRANSFORMS; LINE DETECTORS; LINE INTEGRALS; OPTICAL BEAMS; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL LENSES; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY (PAT); TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; THERMOACOUSTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3 D) IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D); TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) PROJECTIONS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

EID: 42149169095     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.763161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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