Focused array transducer for two-dimensional optoacoustic tomography

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1498-1506

  Kozhushko, Victor ^a   Khokhlova, Tanya ^a   Zharinov, Alexei ^a   Pelivanov, Ivan ^a   Solomatin, Vladimir ^a   Karabutov, Alexander ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARRAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

IMAGING UTILIZERS; OPTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC TRANSIENTS;

TRANSDUCERS;

ELEMENT;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LASER; MICROPHONE; OPTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; THEORY; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 4444323755     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1781710     Document Type: Article

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