Effect of excitation pulse width on thermoacoustic signal characteristics and the corresponding algorithm for optimization of imaging resolution

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Lou, Cunguang ^a   Nie, Liming ^a   Xu, Dong ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITATION PULSE; FDTD SIMULATIONS; IMAGING RESOLUTIONS; LONG PULSE; MICROWAVE PULSE; MICROWAVE PULSE DURATION; PEAK POWER; SIGNAL AMPLITUDE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THERMOACOUSTIC SIGNALS; WAVE FORMS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; IMAGE RESOLUTION; THERMOACOUSTICS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 80655128861     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3651636     Document Type: Article

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