Full-wave iterative image reconstruction in photoacoustic tomography with acoustically inhomogeneous media

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1097-1110

  Huang, Chao ^a   Wang, Kun ^a   Nie, Liming ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a   Anastasio, Mark A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic heterogeneity; iterative image reconstruction; optoacoustic tomography; photoacoustic tomography; thermoacoustic tomography

Indexed keywords

BACKPROJECTION OPERATORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENTS; PROJECTION SYSTEMS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY; DISPERSION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SOUND DETECTION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAPLORHINI; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84878593851     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2254496     Document Type: Article

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