Non-contact thermoacoustic imaging of tissue with airborne ultrasound detection

2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Boyle, Kevin C ^a   Nan, Hao ^a   Apte, Nikhil ^a,b   Unlugedik, Asli ^b   Aliroteh, Miaad S ^a   Bhuyan, Anshuman ^a   Nikoozadeh, Amin ^a,b   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^a,b   Arbabian, Amin ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMUT; detection; imaging; non contact; thermoacoustic; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ERROR DETECTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; THERMOACOUSTICS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; CMUT; NON-CONTACT; NON-CONTACT DETECTION; PRESSURE SENSITIVITIES; THERMOACOUSTIC; THERMOACOUSTIC EFFECTS; THERMOACOUSTIC IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84962016564     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2015.0264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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