Subband photoacoustic imaging for contrast improvement

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20215-20226

  Li, Pai Chi ^a   Wei, Chen Wei ^a   Sheu, Yae Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FREQUENCY BANDS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; CONTRAST IMPROVEMENTS; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; HIGHER-FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; IMAGING CONTRAST; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTIMAL WEIGHTING; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 57349179090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020215     Document Type: Article

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