Performance characterization of an integrated ultrasound, photoacoustic, and thermoacoustic imaging system

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Ke, Haixin ^a   Erpelding, Todd N ^b   Jankovic, Ladislav ^b   Liu, Changjun ^a,c   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Photoacoustic tomography; Thermoacoustic tomography; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOACOUSTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THERMOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; THERMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84866788273     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.17.5.056010     Document Type: Article

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