Time-domain reconstruction for thermoacoustic tomography in a spherical geometry.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Algorithms
- Image Enhancement
- Microwaves
- Tomography
- Ultrasonography