Piezoelectric annular array for large depth of field photoacoustic imaging

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2655-2664

  Passler, K ^a   Nuster, R ^a   Gratt, S ^a   Burgholzer, P ^b   Paltauf, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Research Center for Non Destructive Testing GmbH (RECENDT)   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

ANNULAR ARRAY; DEPTH OF FIELD; DETECTION SYSTEM; EXTENDED DEPTH OF FIELD; IMAGING ARTIFACTS; LATERAL RESOLUTION; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PIEZOELECTRIC DETECTION;

PIEZOELECTRICITY;

EID: 84857305311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.2.002655     Document Type: Article

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