Photoacoustic tomography of small animal brain with a curved array transducer

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Yang, Xinmai ^a   Maurudis, Anastasios ^b   Gamelin, John ^b   Aguirre, Andres ^b   Zhu, Quing ^b   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging; Imaging systems; Photoacoustics

Indexed keywords

A-FRAMES; ANIMAL BRAIN; ARRAY SYSTEMS; ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; BLOOD OXYGEN SATURATION; CROSS SECTIONAL IMAGE; EX-VIVO; FIELD OF VIEWS; GEL COUPLING; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-VIVO; MOUSE BRAIN; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PULSE REPETITION; SMALL ANIMAL; STRUCTURAL IMAGING; TIME-RESOLVED; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING;

BLOOD; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMALS; OXYGEN; PULSE REPETITION RATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MOUSE; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 74049117633     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3227035     Document Type: Article

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