An imaging model incorporating ultrasonic transducer properties for three-dimensional optoacoustic tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 203-214

  Wang, Kun ^a   Ermilov, Sergey A ^b,c   Su, Richard ^b,c   Brecht, Hans Peter ^b,c   Oraevsky, Alexander A ^b,c   Anastasio, Mark A ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Fairway Medical Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c TomoWave Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Optoacoustic tomography (OAT); photoacoustic tomography (PCT); thermoacoustic tomography

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE FORM; IMAGE BLURRING; IMAGING MODALITY; IMAGING MODEL; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENT DATA; MEASUREMENT GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL PROPERTIES; OPTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL RESPONSE; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; THERMOACOUSTICS; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 79551582829     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2072514     Document Type: Article

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