Near-field thermoacoustic imaging with transmission line pulsers

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4460-4466

  Omar, Murad ^a   Kellnberger, Stephan ^a   Sergiadis, George ^b   Razansky, Daniel ^a   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

biological imaging; impulse generator; small animal imaging; thermoacoustic tomography

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LINES; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAMMALS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; THERMOACOUSTICS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; IMPULSE EXCITATIONS; IMPULSE GENERATORS; RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; THERMOACOUSTIC IMAGING; THERMOACOUSTIC RESPONSE; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY;

TRANSMISSIONS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84864271308     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4729710     Document Type: Article

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