Enhancement of photoacoustic image quality by sound speed correction: Ex vivo evaluation

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 3082-3090

  Yoon, Changhan ^a   Kang, Jeeun ^a   Han, Seunghee ^a   Yoo, Yangmo ^a   Song, Tai Kyong ^a   Chang, Jin Ho ^a  

^a Sogang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; OPTIMIZATION; SPEED; TISSUE;

BEAMFORMING METHODS; BREAST CANCER; COHERENT FACTOR; EX-VIVO; LATERAL RESOLUTION; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGE; SOFT TISSUE; SOUND SPEED;

ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST DISEASE; CALCINOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOACOUSTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 84856444218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.003082     Document Type: Article

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