In vivo detection and imaging of low-density foreign body with microwave-induced thermoacoustic tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3429-3437

  Nie, Liming ^a   Xing, Da ^a   Yang, Sihua ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dielectric loss factor; Fast scanning thermoacoustic tomography; In vivo foreign body detection; Microwave diffraction; X ray imaging and CT

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC INSULATION TESTING; MAMMALS; MICROWAVE ACOUSTICS; MICROWAVES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THERMOACOUSTICS; TISSUE; WOOD; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

CALIBRATION ALGORITHM; DIELECTRIC LOSS FACTORS; FOREIGN BODY DETECTION; MICROWAVE ABSORPTION; MICROWAVE DISTRIBUTIONS; NON-UNIFORM EXCITATIONS; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; XRAY IMAGING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

GLASS FIBER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY; WOOD;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 68149181733     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3157204     Document Type: Article

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