An adaptive filtered back-projection for photoacoustic image reconstruction

Medical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2169-2178

  Huang, He ^a   Bustamante, Gilbert ^a   Peterson, Ralph ^a   Ye, Jing Yong ^a  

^a The University of Texas at San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive criterion; image reconstruction; medical image; photoacoustic effect; weighting function

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LOW PASS FILTERS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; TRANSDUCERS;

ADAPTIVE CRITERION; BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHMS; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; IMAGES RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGE; PHANTOMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ACOUSTIC STRESS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MATHEMATICS; PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICES; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84927617569     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4915532     Document Type: Article

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