Photoacoustic tomography of monkey brain using virtual point ultrasonic transducers

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Nie, Liming ^a   Guo, Zijian ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

human neonatal brain; monkey brain; photoacoustic tomography; virtual point ultrasonic detectors

Indexed keywords

CEREBRAL CORTEX; FIELD OF VIEWS; HIGH UNIFORMITY; HUMAN NEONATAL BRAIN; IMAGING OBJECTS; MONKEY BRAIN; NEONATAL BRAIN IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; RADIAL RESOLUTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE; TISSUE PHANTOM; ULTRASOUND ATTENUATION; VIRTUAL POINTS;

PEDIATRICS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS;

BRAIN;

HAPLORHINI;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CATTLE; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; MACACA MULATTA; METHODOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATTLE; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MACACA MULATTA; NEUROIMAGING; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 79960188922     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3595842     Document Type: Article

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