Scanning acoustic-photoacoustic microscopy using axicon transducers

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 318-323

  Passler, K ^a   Nuster, R ^a   Gratt, S ^a   Burgholzer, P ^b   Berer, T ^b   Paltauf, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Research Center for Non Destructive Testing GmbH (RECENDT)   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

DEPTH OF FIELD; DUAL MODES; IMAGING MODES; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; SHORT LASER PULSE; SINGLE SCAN; TIME OF FLIGHT; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; X WAVES;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 79960552817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.1.000318     Document Type: Article

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