Polymer microring resonators for high-sensitivity and wideband photoacoustic imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2482-2491

  Chen, Sung Liang ^a   Huang, Sheng Wen ^a,b   Ling, Tao ^a   Ashkenazi, Shai ^a,c   Guo, L Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D-ARRAYS; A-CENTER; ACOUSTIC WAVELENGTH; BROADBAND RESPONSE; DETECTOR RESPONSE; HIGH FIDELITY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL FREQUENCY; HIGH-SENSITIVITY; IMAGING DEPTH; IMAGING RECONSTRUCTION; INNER STRUCTURE; LASER FLUENCES; LOW-SPATIAL FREQUENCY; MULTISCALES; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; POLYMER MICRORING RESONATORS; SIGNAL AVERAGING; ULTRASOUND DETECTION; WIDE-BAND;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BANDPASS FILTERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELASTOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER; VIBRATION;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; POLYMERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATION;

EID: 73949145716     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1335     Document Type: Article

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