Three-dimensional optoacoustic tomography using a conventional ultrasound linear detector array: Whole-body tomographic system for small animals

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gateau, Jérôme ^a   Caballero, Miguel Ángel Araque ^a   Dima, Alexander ^a   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

computed tomography; linear array; optoacoustic; small animal imaging; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAMMALS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PULSED LASERS; SCANNING; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

FILTERED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; GEOMETRICAL CHARACTERISTICS; LINEAR ARRAYS; LINEAR DETECTOR ARRAYS; OPTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; EX VIVO STUDY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LASER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; ULTRASOUND; ABDOMEN; ANIMAL; EQUIPMENT; HEAD; PHOTOACOUSTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; HEAD; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 84872039990     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4770292     Document Type: Article

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58. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.4770292 E-MPHYA6-40-042301 for videos 1-3. Video 1: This video corresponds to Fig., and shows the 3D optoacoustic volume image of the thread cross. Rotating maximum amplitude projection images around the z axis are displayed with 2° angle between the projections, and at a frame rate of 15 images per second; Video 2: This video corresponds to Fig., and shows the 3D optoacoustic volume image of the abdomen of the 7-day-old mouse. Rotating maximum amplitude projection images around the z axis are displayed with 2° angle between the projections, and at a frame rate of 15 images per second; Video 3: This video corresponds to Fig., and shows the 3D optoacoustic volume image of the head of the 4-day-old mouse. Rotating maximum amplitude projection images around the x-axis are displayed with 2° angle between the projections, and at a frame rate of 15 images per second.