On the speckle-free nature of photoacoustic tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4084-4088

  Guo, Zijian ^a   Li, Li ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Photoacoustic imaging; Speckle

Indexed keywords

LASER EXCITATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALL OPTICAL; COHERENT IMAGING; IMAGING TECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL ABSORBERS; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PRESSURE RISE; SPECKLE; STRONG CORRELATION; TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEM;

SPECKLE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BIOMECHANICS; CONTRAST; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXCITATION; LASER; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 69549116682     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3187231     Document Type: Article

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