Design of miniaturized illumination for transvaginal co-registered photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3074-3079

  Salehi, Hassan S ^a   Wang, Tianheng ^a   Kumavor, Patrick D ^b   Li, Hai ^a   Zhu, Quing ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; HEMOGLOBIN OXYGEN SATURATION; LASER BEAMS; LASER SAFETY; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL FIBERS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE; CANCER DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; ILLUMINATION DESIGN; LASER BEAM PROFILE; MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS; OPTICAL COUPLING EFFICIENCY; PHOTOACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

LENSES;

GLASS FIBER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILLUMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHOTOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 84928569851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.5.003074     Document Type: Article

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