Improving tangential resolution with a modified delay-and-sum reconstruction algorithm in photoacoustic and thermoacoustic tomography

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 621-627

  Pramanik, Manojit ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

MODIFIED ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL PHANTOMS; RECONSTRUCTED OBJECTS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

DETECTORS;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84898067394     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.31.000621     Document Type: Article

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