Transport-based quantitative photoacoustic tomography: Simulations and experiments

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1917-1934

  Yao, Lei ^a   Sun, Yao ^a   Jiang, Huabei ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; ANISOTROPY FACTOR; COMPARATIVE SIMULATION; DOMAIN SIZE; HELMHOLTZ; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGE; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC WAVE; PHOTON DIFFUSION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; TISSUE-LIKE PHANTOM;

DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTONS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE EQUATIONS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77949711164     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/7/009     Document Type: Article

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