Short-lag spatial coherence beamforming of photoacoustic images for enhanced visualization of prostate brachytherapy seeds

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1964-1977

  Lediju Bell, Muyinatu A ^a,b   Kuo, Nathanael ^c   Song, Danny Y ^b   Boctor, Emad M ^a,b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SOURCES; ONCOLOGY; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADIOTHERAPY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; UROLOGY; VISUALIZATION;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DELAY-AND-SUM BEAMFORMER; FEASIBLE ALTERNATIVES; INTRAOPERATIVE VISUALIZATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC SIGNALS; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND;

BEAMFORMING;

GELATIN; GLASS FIBER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; COW; LASER; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84884933234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.4.001964     Document Type: Article

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