Exact frequency-domain reconstruction for thermoacoustic tomography. II. Cylindrical geometry

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging - Tập 21 Số 7 - Trang 829-833 - 2002
Yuan Xu1, Minghua Xu1, L.V. Wang1
1Optical Imaging Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX, USA

Tóm tắt

For pt. I see ibid., vol. 21, no. 7, p. 823-8 (2002). Microwave-induced thermoacoustic tomography (TAT) in a cylindrical configuration is developed to image biological tissue. Thermoacoustic signals are acquired by scanning a flat ultrasonic transducer. Using a new expansion of a spherical wave in cylindrical coordinates, we apply the Fourier and Hankel transforms to TAT and obtain an exact frequency-domain reconstruction method. The effect of discrete spatial sampling on image quality is analyzed. An aliasing-proof reconstruction method is proposed. Numerical and experimental results are included.

Từ khóa

#Tomography #Geometry #Reconstruction algorithms #Image reconstruction #Biological tissues #Ultrasonic transducers #Discrete Fourier transforms #Fourier transforms #Frequency domain analysis #Image sampling

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