Dependence of photoacoustic speckles on boundary roughness

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Guo, Zijian ^a   Xu, Zhun ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary roughness; Photoacoustic tomography; Point spread function; Speckle; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTICS; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 84865580906     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.17.4.046009     Document Type: Article

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