Comparison of intensity-modulated continuous-wave lasers with a chirped modulation frequency to pulsed lasers for photoacoustic imaging applications

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1188-1195

  Petschke, Adam ^a   La Rivière, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; LASER SAFETY; MODULATION; PULSED LASERS; TRANSDUCERS;

AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE; AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; CHIRP PULSE; CHIRPED MODULATION; CONTINUOUS WAVES; FLUENCES; MATERIAL PROPERTY; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC WAVE; PULSED-LASER SYSTEMS; REASONABLE VALUE; SAFETY GUIDELINES; TIME-BANDWIDTH PRODUCTS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

EID: 79955502864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.1.001188     Document Type: Article

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