Quantitative spectroscopic photoacoustic imaging: A review

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Cox, Ben ^a   Laufer, Jan G ^a   Arridge, Simon R ^a   Beard, Paul C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Imaging; Inverse problems; Photoacoustics; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; LIGHT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICS; PHOTOACOUSTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OXYGEN; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84868631754     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.17.6.061202     Document Type: Article

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