Curved array photoacoustic tomographic system for small animal imaging

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Gamelin, John ^a   Aguirre, Andres ^a   Maurudis, Anastasios ^a   Huang, Fei ^a   Castillo, Diego ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^b   Zhu, Quing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

biomedical optics; medical imaging; photoacoustics; point spread functions; tomography; ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL OPTICS; CENTER FREQUENCY; CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; DEDICATED CHANNELS; EX-VIVO; FIELD OF VIEWS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-SENSITIVITY DETECTION; IMAGING CAPABILITIES; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGE; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHIC SYSTEM; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; REDUCED SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; SAMPLE ROTATION; SMALL ANIMAL; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; TARGET SIZE; TOMOGRAPHIC; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING; TURBID MEDIUM; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER ARRAY; VASCULATURE;

MAMMALS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ANIMALIA;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 42149173641     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2907157     Document Type: Article

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