Optoacoustic imaging and tomography: Reconstruction approaches and outstanding challenges in image performance and quantification

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 7345-7384

  Lutzweiler, Christian ^a   Razansky, Daniel ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; Inverse problem; Light transport; Multispectral optoacoustic tomography; Optoacoustic imaging; Photoacoustic tomography; Quantification; Spectroscopic imaging

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSPORT; OPTOACOUSTIC IMAGING; OPTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTIFICATION; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING;

BIOACOUSTICS; CHROMOPHORES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; TISSUE;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

EID: 84878851771     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130607345     Document Type: Review

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