Published February 2013
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Journal Article
Transcranial Thermoacoustic Tomography: A Comparison of Two Imaging Algorithms
Abstract
Thermoacoustic tomography (TAT) is a novel, non-invasive medical imaging technique but has encountered obstacles in imaging through the cranium. In this paper we present two methods for transcranial TAT: Kirchhoff migration (KM) and reverse-time migration (RTM). The two methods' imaging qualities are verified and compared based on both synthetic and experimental data. RTM proves to have better velocity variance and imaging quality, and little noise with spatial aliasing. RTM is a promising approach for achieving transcranial TAT in further studies.
Additional Information
© 2012 IEEE. Manuscript received August 24, 2012; accepted October 03, 2012. Date of publication October 12, 2012; date of current version January 30, 2013. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Defense under Grant W913E5-07-C-008.Additional details
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- W913E5-07-C-008
- Department of Defense
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