Poly(vinyl alcohol) gels as photoacoustic breast phantoms revisited

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Xia, Wenfeng ^a   Piras, Daniele ^a   Heijblom, Michelle ^a   Steenbergen, Wiendelt ^a   Van Leeuwen, Ton G ^a,b   Manohara, Srirang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast phantom; Photoacoustic; Poly(vinyl alcohol) gel; Scanning electron microscope

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ATTENUATION; BREAST PHANTOM; BREAST TISSUES; FREEZING AND THAWING; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC; POLY(VINYL ALCOHOL) GEL; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL GELS; PVA-GEL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; TEST SPECIMENS; TWO LAYERS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; GELS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

VICIA SATIVA;

POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GEL; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOACOUSTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE;

ACOUSTICS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GELS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80455137221     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3597616     Document Type: Article

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