Image reconstruction in photoacoustic tomography with variable speed of sound using a higher-order geometrical acoustics approximation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7177, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Modgil, Dimple ^a   Anastasio, Mark A ^b   Wang, Kun ^b   La Riviere, Patrick J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometrical acoustics; Image reconstruction; Inhomogeneous; Optoacoustic tomography; Photoacoustic tomography; Thermoacoustic tomography; Travel times; Variable speed of sound

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL ACOUSTICS; INHOMOGENEOUS; OPTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVEL TIMES; VARIABLE SPEED OF SOUND;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTIC WAVES; APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTONS; RADON; RESTORATION; SPEED; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 66249136838     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.809001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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