Linear frequency modulation photoacoustic radar: Optimal bandwidth and signal-to-noise ratio for frequency-domain imaging of turbid media

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1313-1324

  Lashkari, Bahman ^a   Mandelis, Andreas ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC MODELS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; LINEAR FREQUENCY MODULATION; LOW FREQUENCY; PA IMAGING; SIGNAL GENERATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SIGNAL TRACES; SPECTRAL MATCHINGS; TRANSDUCER SENSITIVITY; TURBID MEDIA; TWO-DIMENSIONAL WAVES;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; BANDWIDTH; BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; LOW PASS FILTERS; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL GENERATORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCERS; TURBIDITY; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

CHIRP MODULATION;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTION; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PRESSURE; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; ULTRASOUND;

ABSORPTION; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MOTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 80052547229     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3605290     Document Type: Article

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