Thermoacoustic computed tomography with large planar receivers

Inverse Problems

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1663-1673

  Haltmeier, M ^a   Scherzer, O ^a   Burgholzer, P ^b   Paltauf, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Upper Austrian Research GmbH   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SPECIFIC HEAT; THERMAL EXPANSION;

PLANAR RECEIVERS; TEMPORAL SHAPE; THERMOACOUSTIC IMAGING; THERMOACOUSTIC PRESSURE FIELD;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

EID: 6344282855     PISSN: 02665611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/20/5/021     Document Type: Article

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