Time-domain reconstruction for thermoacoustic tomography in a spherical geometry

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging - Tập 21 Số 7 - Trang 814-822 - 2002
Minghua Xu1, L.V. Wang1
1Optical Imaging Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX, USA

Tóm tắt

Reconstruction-based microwave-induced thermoacoustic tomography in a spherical configuration is presented. Thermoacoustic waves from biological tissue samples excited by microwave pulses are measured by a wide-band unfocused ultrasonic transducer, which is set on a spherical surface enclosing the sample. Sufficient data are acquired from different directions to reconstruct the microwave absorption distribution. An exact reconstruction solution is derived and approximated to a modified backprojection algorithm. Experiments demonstrate that the reconstructed images agree well with the original samples. The spatial resolution of the system reaches 0.5 mm.

Từ khóa

#Time domain analysis #Tomography #Geometry #Image reconstruction #Pulse measurements #Biological tissues #Microwave measurements #Ultrasonic variables measurement #Ultra wideband technology #Ultrasonic transducers

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