Evaluation of contrast enhancement by carbon nanotubes for microwave-induced thermoacoustic tomography

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 930-938

  Song, Jian ^a   Zhao, Zhiqin ^a   Wang, Jinguo ^a   Zhu, Xiaozhang ^a   Wu, Jiangniu ^a   Nie, Zaiping ^a   Liu, Qing Huo ^b  

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

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

breast tumor detection; carbon nanotubes; contrast agent; Thermo acoustic imaging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; CARBON; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; THERMOACOUSTICS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; YARN;

BREAST TUMOR DETECTION; CONTRAST AGENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIELECTRIC CONTRASTS; INTEGRATED SIMULATIONS; THERMOACOUSTIC RESPONSE; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE-MIMICKING MATERIALS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONDUCTANCE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROWAVE INDUCED THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; PHANTOM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING PHANTOM; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROWAVES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84923857927     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2014.2373397     Document Type: Article

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