Adaptive synthetic-aperture focusing technique for microvasculature imaging using photoacoustic microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 7555-7563

  Deng, Zilin ^a,b   Yang, Xiaoquan ^a,b   Gong, Hui ^a,b   Luo, Qingming ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ARBITRARY DIRECTION; FOCUSING TECHNIQUE; IN-VIVO IMAGING; LATERAL RESOLUTION; MICRO-VASCULATURE; OUT-OF-FOCUS; PHANTOM STUDIES;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROVASCULATURE; MOUSE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOACOUSTICS;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LENSES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MICROVESSELS; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84859416918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.007555     Document Type: Article

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