Iterative reconstruction method with optimal time-of-flights for imaging microwave absorption properties of tissues in acoustically heterogeneous environment in microwave-induced thermoacoustic tomography (MITAT)

Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications

Volumn 28, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 2350-2363

  Wang, Jin Guo ^a   Zhao, Zhi Qin ^a   Song, Jian ^a   Nie, Zai Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

acoustic heterogeneity; biomedical imaging; microwave induced thermoacoustic tomography; time of flight

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; HISTOLOGY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROWAVE ACOUSTICS; MICROWAVES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; THERMOACOUSTICS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; HETEROGENEOUS TISSUES; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROWAVE ABSORPTION PROPERTIES; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3-D) IMAGING; TIME OF FLIGHT;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 84918828748     PISSN: 09205071     EISSN: 15693937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09205071.2014.969408     Document Type: Article

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