Near-field thermoacoustic tomography of small animals

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3433-3444

  Kellnberger, Stephan ^a   Hajiaboli, Amir ^a   Razansky, Daniel ^a   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; ELECTROMAGNETIC IMPULSE; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; IMAGING METHOD; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; NEAR-FIELD; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PERFORMANCE METRICS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; SMALL ANIMAL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THERMOACOUSTIC IMAGING; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; TIME DOMAIN; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING; WHOLE-BODY;

ANIMALS; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THERMOACOUSTICS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HEAT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TOMOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; HOT TEMPERATURE; MICE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79956127852     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/11/016     Document Type: Article

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