Saturation effect in functional photoacoustic imaging

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Jing ^a,b   Liu, Tan ^a   Jiao, Shuliang ^c   Chen, Ruimin ^d   Zhou, Qifa ^d   Kirk Shung, K ^d   Wang, Lihong V ^e   Zhang, Hao F ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of Southern California   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional imaging; Photoacoustic imaging; Saturation

Indexed keywords

CENTER FREQUENCY; FILLED PLASTICS; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; OPTICAL ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; OPTICAL ENERGY; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC SIGNALS; SATURATION EFFECTS; SEMI-INFINITE; ULTRASONIC DETECTORS;

ABSORPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; INK; SIGNAL GENERATORS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77949512157     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3333549     Document Type: Article

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