Tangential resolution improvement in thermoacoustic and photoacoustic tomography using a negative acoustic lens

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Pramanik, Manojit ^a   Ku, Geng ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

negative acoustic lens; photoacoustic tomography; tangential resolution; thermoacoustic tomography

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE ANGLE; ACOUSTIC LENS; APERTURE SIZES; CONCAVE LENS; DETECTOR SURFACES; FLAT DETECTORS; NOVEL CONCEPT; OBJECT OF INTERESTS; PHANTOM IMAGES; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT; TANGENTIAL RESOLUTION; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY;

DETECTORS; THERMOACOUSTICS; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELASTOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LENSES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 67650308512     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3103778     Document Type: Article

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