Photoacoustic speckles: boundary dependence and experimental validation

Zijian Guo; Zhun Xu; Lihong V. Wang

doi:10.1117/12.906792

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23 February 2012 Photoacoustic speckles: boundary dependence and experimental validation

Zijian Guo, Zhun Xu, Lihong V. Wang

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Proceedings Volume 8223, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2012; 82232M (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.906792
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2012, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) suppresses speckles by prominent boundary buildups. We theoretically study the dependence of PAT speckles on the boundary roughness, which is quantified by the root-mean-squared (RMS) value and the correlation length of the height. The speckle visibility and the correlation coefficient between the reconstructed and actual boundaries are quantified as a function of the boundary roughness. The statistics of PAT speckles is studied experimentally.

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Zijian Guo, Zhun Xu, and Lihong V. Wang "Photoacoustic speckles: boundary dependence and experimental validation", Proc. SPIE 8223, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2012, 82232M (23 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.906792

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