Microwave-induced thermoacoustic scanning CT for high-contrast and noninvasive breast cancer imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 4026-4032

  Nie, Liming ^a   Xing, Da ^a   Zhou, Quan ^a   Yang, Diwu ^a   Guo, Hua ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Absorption contrast; Breast cancer imaging; High contrast; Modified integration algorithm; Thermoacoustic tomography; Velocity potential

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DISEASES; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTEGRATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; THERMOACOUSTICS; TISSUE;

BREAST CANCER IMAGING; HIGH CONTRAST; INTEGRATION ALGORITHM; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY POTENTIALS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROWAVE INDUCED THERMOACOUSTIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 50449107101     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2966345     Document Type: Article

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