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17148827

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
24
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-12-6
pubmed:abstractText
Thermoacoustic tomography (TAT) is a technique that measures microwave-induced thermoacoustic waves at the boundary of biological tissue and generates images of internal microwave absorption distributions from the measurements. Existing reconstruction algorithms for TAT are based on the assumption that the acoustic properties in the tissue are homogeneous. Biological tissue, however, has heterogeneous acoustic properties, which lead to distortion and blurring of small buried objects in the reconstructed images. In this paper we develop a correction method based on ultrasonic transmission tomography (UTT) to improve the image quality of TAT. Numerical simulations and phantom experiments verify the effectiveness of this correction method.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0031-9155
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
21
pubmed:volume
51
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
6437-48
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-12-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Thermoacoustic tomography with correction for acoustic speed variations.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3120, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural