Adaptive and robust methods of reconstruction (ARMOR) for thermoacoustic tomography

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2741-2752

  Xie, Yao ^a   Guo, Bin ^b   Li, Jian ^c   Ku, Geng ^d   Wang, Lihong V ^d  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; Biomedical acoustic imaging; Robustness

Indexed keywords

ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; BIOMEDICAL ACOUSTIC IMAGING; BREAST CANCER DETECTIONS; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCES; HIGH CONTRASTS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; INTERFERENCE REJECTION CAPABILITIES; LASER STIMULATIONS; MEASURED DATUMS; MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PHASE DISTORTIONS; ROBUST METHODS; ROBUSTNESS; SIDELOBE LEVELS;

ACOUSTIC HOLOGRAPHY; ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ACOUSTICS; ARMOR; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MILITARY EQUIPMENT; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; REPAIR; RESTORATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; ARTIFACTS; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES;

EID: 58149216512     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.919112     Document Type: Article

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