Design, fabrication, and testing of a dual-band photoacoustic transducer

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7177, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Liu, Jian Hung ^a   Wei, Chen Wei ^a   Sheu, Yae Lin ^a   Tasi, Yu Tsung ^a   Wang, Yu Hsin ^b   Li, Pai Chi ^a,b  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering ^*  (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Dual frequency transducer; Subband imaging

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; AGAROSE; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; CANCER CELLS; CENTER FREQUENCY; CONCENTRATION OF; CONCENTRIC RINGS; CONTRAST AGENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DFPT; DUAL FREQUENCY; DUAL-BAND; DUAL-FREQUENCY TRANSDUCER; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; GLASS BEAD; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HIGHER FREQUENCY SUBBANDS; HIGHER-FREQUENCY SIGNALS; IN-VIVO; LITHIUM NIOBATE; MOLECULAR PROBES; OPERATING FREQUENCY; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; PEAK FREQUENCIES; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC SIGNALS; SMALL ANIMAL MODEL; SUBBAND IMAGING; ULTRASONIC RESOLUTION;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; GOLD; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NANOPARTICLES; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTONS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 66249115644     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.809954     Document Type: Conference Paper

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