Quantitative microwave-induced thermoacoustic tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3752-3759

  Yao, Lei ^a   Guo, Gaofeng ^a   Jiang, Huabei ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

finite element method; inverse algorithm; microwave imaging; thermoacoustic tomography

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MICROWAVES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; THERMOACOUSTICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

CONDUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION; INVERSE ALGORITHM; MICROWAVE IMAGING; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; REGULARIZATION TECHNIQUE; THERMO-ACOUSTIC WAVES; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ALGORITHM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PROCEDURES; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROWAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77954697502     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3456926     Document Type: Article

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