A new acoustic lens material for large area detectors in photoacoustic breast tomography

Photoacoustics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 9-18

  Xia, Wenfeng ^a   Piras, Daniele ^a   van Hespen, Johan C G ^a   Steenbergen, Wiendelt ^a   Manohar, Srirang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustic lens; Breast imaging; Photoacoustic tomography; Stycast 1090SI

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CHARACTERIZATION; BREAST IMAGING; DIRECTIONAL SENSITIVITY; LATERAL RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT; PHOTOACOUSTIC MAMMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; STYCAST 1090SI;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MATERIALS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ACOUSTIC);

EID: 84879572467     PISSN: 22135979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacs.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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