Thermoacoustic imaging over large field of view for three-dimensional breast tumor localization: A phantom study

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Fu, Yong ^a   Ji, Zhong ^a   Ding, Wenzheng ^a   Ye, Fanghao ^a   Lou, Cunguang ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

conversion efficiency; field of view; localization; thermoacoustic imaging; ultrashort pulsed microwave

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROWAVES; PHANTOMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THERMOACOUSTICS; TUMORS;

BREAST TUMOUR; FIELD OF VIEWS; LARGE FIELD OF VIEWS; LOCALISATION; PULSED MICROWAVES; THERMOACOUSTIC IMAGING; TUMOUR LOCALIZATION; ULTRA-SHORT PULSED; ULTRASHORT MICROWAVE PULSE; ULTRASHORT PULSED MICROWAVE;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGING PHANTOM; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION FIELD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THERMOACOUSTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ULTRASHORT MICROWAVE PULSE GENERATOR; ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROWAVES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84908190402     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4898101     Document Type: Article

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