Feasibility of noncontact piezoelectric detection of photoacoustic signals in tissue-mimicking phantoms

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Kolkman, Roy G M ^a   Blomme, Erik ^b   Cool, Tijl ^b   Bilcke, Mattias ^b   Van Leeuwen, Ton G ^c   Steenbergen, Wiendelt ^a   Grimbergen, Kees A ^c,d   Den Heeten, Gerard J ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Associatie KULeuven   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e Dutch National Training and Reference Centre for Breast Cancer Screening   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Air coupled detection; Air coupled ultrasound; Blood vessel; Imaging; Optoacoustic; Photoacoustic; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AIR-COUPLED; AIR-COUPLED DETECTION; AIR-COUPLED ULTRASOUNDS; LASER-INDUCED ULTRASOUND; MAMMOGRAPHIC; NEW APPLICATIONS; NON-CONTACT; OPTOACOUSTIC; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC; PHOTOACOUSTIC SIGNALS; PIEZOELECTRIC DETECTION; SCREENING PROCEDURES; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM;

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BREAST TUMOR; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LASER; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER; VASCULARIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; BLOOD VESSELS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 79952496062     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3491113     Document Type: Article

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