Ultrashort microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging: A breakthrough in excitation efficiency and spatial resolution

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Lou, Cunguang ^a   Yang, Sihua ^a   Ji, Zhong ^a   Chen, Qun ^a   Xing, Da ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITATION EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MICRON RESOLUTION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; THERMOACOUSTIC; THERMOACOUSTIC IMAGING; ULTRASHORT MICROWAVE PULSE;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

THERMOACOUSTICS;

EID: 84870170312     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.218101     Document Type: Article

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