Photoacoustic computed tomography correcting for heterogeneity and attenuation

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Huang, Chao ^a   Nie, Liming ^a   Schoonover, Robert W ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a   Anastasio, Mark A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Image reconstruction; Photoacoustics; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PRESSURE; SKULL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TRANSDUCER;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE; SKULL; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84865071098     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.17.6.061211     Document Type: Article

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