A 3-D high-frequency array based 16 channe photoacoustic microscopy system for in vivo micro-vascular imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1190-1197

  Bitton, Rachel ^a,b   Zemp, Roger ^c,d   Yen, Jesse ^e   Wang, Lihong V ^f   Shung, K Kirk ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

High frequency ultrasound; Multichannel receiver electronics; Photoacoustic imaging; Transducer array

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; AXIAL SPATIAL RESOLUTION; BEAM-STEERING; COMPOSITE LINEAR; DELAY AND SUMS; DYNAMIC FOCUSING; ELECTRONICS SYSTEM; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND; HUMAN HANDS; IMAGING DEPTH; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO IMAGES; MICRO-VASCULATURE; MULTI-CHANNEL RECEIVERS; MULTICHANNEL RECEIVER ELECTRONICS; OFFLINE; PHANTOM IMAGES; PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS; TRANSDUCER ARRAY; TUNABLE DYE LASERS; VASCULAR IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CARBON FIBERS; DYE LASERS; ELECTRIC COILS; LASERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PUMPING (LASER); THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC DEVICES; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HAND; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROVASCULATURE; RAT; SKIN; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MICROVESSELS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN;

EID: 68249100459     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2011899     Document Type: Article

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