Shape-adapting thermoacoustic imaging system based on flexible multi-element transducer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Ji, Zhong ^a   Ding, Wenzheng ^a   Ye, Fanghao ^a   Lou, Cunguang ^a   Xing, Da ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; THERMOACOUSTICS; TRANSDUCERS; TUMORS;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BREAST TUMOR DETECTION; CIRCULAR SCANNING; IMAGE DISTORTIONS; INFORMATION INTEGRITY; MICROWAVE ABSORPTION; MICROWAVE-INDUCED; THERMOACOUSTIC IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84940705649     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4929881     Document Type: Article

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