Experimental evaluation of time domain models for ultrasound attenuation losses in photoacoustic imaging

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 3763-3774

  Roitner, H ^a,b   Bauer Marschallinger, J ^a,b   Berer, T ^a,b   Burgholzer, P ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONICS   (Austria)

^b Research Center for Non Destructive Testing GmbH (RECENDT)   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DETECTOR SIGNALS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; IMAGING RESOLUTIONS; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; TIME DOMAIN MODELS; TIME-DOMAIN WAVEFORMS; ULTRASOUND ATTENUATION; ULTRASOUND PULSE;

ULTRASONIC WAVES;

EID: 84871018606     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3699194     Document Type: Article

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