Transcranial thermoacoustic tomography: A comparison of two imaging algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 289-294

  Liu, Zijian ^a,b   Liu, Lanbo ^a   Xu, Yuan ^c   Wang, Lihong Victory ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Petroleum Geo Services   (United States)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Kirchhoff migration; reverse time migration; thermoacoustic tomography

Indexed keywords

IMAGING ALGORITHM; IMAGING QUALITY; KIRCHHOFF MIGRATION; REVERSE-TIME MIGRATION; SPATIAL ALIASING; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSCRANIAL;

MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHOTOACOUSTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROWAVES; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873287292     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2224667     Document Type: Article

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