Ex vivo thermoacoustic imaging over large fields of view with 108 MHZ irradiation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2238-2246

  Eckhart, Andrew T ^a   Balmer, Robert T ^b   See, William A ^c   Patch, S K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic imaging; acoustic source; acoustic tomography; biomedical imaging; energy conversion; thermoacoustic effects

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SOURCE; ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; CARRIER FREQUENCY; DEPTH PENETRATION; EX-VIVO; FIELD OF VIEWS; FIELDS OF VIEWS; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; LARGE FIELD OF VIEWS; NOISE FLOOR; PHYSIOLOGIC SALINES; PORCINE KIDNEY; PULSE ENERGIES; SOFT TISSUE; STRONG SIGNAL; TEST SPECIMENS; THERMOACOUSTIC EFFECTS; THERMOACOUSTIC IMAGING; THERMOACOUSTIC SIGNALS; TOMOGRAPHIC; ULTRASONIC PULSE;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ENERGY CONVERSION; IRRADIATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL GENERATORS; THERMOACOUSTICS; TISSUE;

PULSE GENERATORS;

GLYCINE; WATER;

ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENERGY; EX VIVO STUDY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; IRRADIATION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PROSTATE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SWINE; TEMPERATURE; THERMOACOUSTICS; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VITRO STUDY; KIDNEY; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; KIDNEY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79960743244     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2128319     Document Type: Article

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