Photoacoustic tomography of the mouse cerebral cortex with a high-numerical-aperture-based virtual point detector

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Li, Changhui ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

high numerical aperture (NA); photoacoustic tomography (PAT); virtual point detector

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS; OBJECT DETECTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ACCEPTANCE ANGLE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FOCUSED TRANSDUCER; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURE; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURES; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; POINT DETECTORS; VIRTUAL POINT DETECTOR; VIRTUAL POINTS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MOUSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 67650323930     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3122365     Document Type: Article

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