Imaging of acoustic attenuation and speed of sound maps using photoacoustic measurements

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6920, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Willemink, Rene G H ^a   Manohar, Srirang ^a   Purwar, Yashasvi ^b   Slump, Cornelis H ^a   Van Der Heijden, Ferdi ^a   Van Leeuwen, Ton G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Multi modality imaging; Optoacoustics; Ultrasound transmission tomography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

ACOUSTIC ATTENUATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

EID: 42949144885     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.770061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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