Improving limited-view photoacoustic tomography with an acoustic reflector

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Huang, Bin ^a   Xia, Jun ^a   Maslov, Konstantin ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic reflector; linear array; photoacoustic tomography; reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLECTORS; DETECTION COVERAGE; LINEAR ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; LINEAR ARRAYS; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; REALTIME IMAGING; TRANSDUCER SURFACE;

ACOUSTICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REFLECTION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EAR; EQUIPMENT; HAIR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PLANT LEAF; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; EAR; HAIR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; PLANT LEAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84889771463     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.18.11.110505     Document Type: Article

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