Photoacoustic microtomography using optical interferometric detection

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Nuster, Robert ^a   Holotta, Markus ^b   Kremser, Christian ^b   Grossauer, Harald ^c   Burgholzer, Peter ^d   Paltauf, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d Research Center for Non Destructive Testing GmbH (RECENDT)   (Austria)

Author keywords

Imaging; Interferometry; Inverse problems; Photoacoustics; Sensors

Indexed keywords

2-D WAVE; 3-D IMAGE; 3D IMAGING; BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ALGORITHM; HUMAN HAIR; IMAGING; IMAGING INTERFEROMETRY; INITIAL PRESSURE; INTERFEROMETRIC DETECTION; INVERSE RADON TRANSFORMS; ISOLATED MOUSE; LIGHT BEAM; LINE INTEGRALS; MICRO-TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PROJECTION IMAGE; SCANNING MODE; TWO-STEP PROCESS; WATER BATHS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; CAVITY RESONATORS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERFEROMETRY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; SCANNING; SENSORS; TOMOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MOUSE; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERFEROMETRY; MICE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 77949527790     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3333547     Document Type: Article

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