Thermoacoustic Tomography: Principles and applications

PRELIMS.pdf
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Author biography
		Huabei Jiang
CH001.pdf
	Chapter 1 Fundamentals of thermoacoustic tomography
		1.1 Thermoacoustic effect
		1.2 Image reconstruction methods
			1.2.1 Delay-and-sum beam forming algorithm
			1.2.2 A-line/B-mode image formation method
			1.2.3 Iterative nonlinear algorithm
		1.3 Instrumentation
		References
CH002.pdf
	Chapter 2 Quantitative thermoacoustic tomography
		2.1 Recovery of tissue conductivity
			Examples
		2.2 Simultaneous recovery of absorbed microwave energy density and acoustic velocity
		2.3 Simultaneous recovery of conductivity and elasticity
			2.3.1 Image reconstruction algorithm
			2.3.2 Numerical simulations
			2.3.3 Phantom experiments
			2.3.4 Results
			2.3.5 Discussion and conclusion
		References
CH003.pdf
	Chapter 3 Image enhancement: software and hardware approaches
		3.1 Dual mesh scheme
			Examples
		3.2 Adjoint sensitivity method
		3.3 TVM scheme
		3.4 Rigorous incident electric field and adaptive minimization strategy
			3.4.1 Simulations and experiments
			3.4.2 Discussion
		3.5 Parallel computation
		3.6 Compact dipole antenna
			3.6.1 Methods and materials
			3.6.2 Results and discussion
			3.6.3 Conclusions
		3.7 Compact microwave source
			3.7.1 Methods and materials
			3.7.2 Results and discussion
			3.7.3 Conclusions
		3.8 Anti-phase microwave excitation
			3.8.1 Materials and methods
			3.8.2 Results
			3.8.3 Conclusions
		References
CH004.pdf
	Chapter 4 Transducer array-based TAT: 2D and 3D thermoacoustic imaging
		4.1 Array-based TAT system and 2D imaging
			4.1.1 Microwave source
			4.1.2 128-Element ultrasound transducer arrays
			4.1.3 Control electronics and data acquisition
			4.1.4 System evaluation and experimental studies
		4.2 3D Imaging
			4.2.1 System description
			4.2.2 Phantom experiments
		Reference
CH005.pdf
	Chapter 5 High-resolution and multi-modal approaches
		5.1 High-resolution TAT
		5.2 Multi-modal approaches—TAT/PAT
		5.3 Multi-modal approaches—TAT/US
		References
CH006.pdf
	Chapter 6 Contrast agents-based molecular thermoacoustic imaging
		6.1 Magnetic materials
			6.1.1 Fe3O4/PANI and FA-Fe3O4/PANI
			6.1.2 NMG2[Gd(DTPA)]
		6.2 Carbon nanomaterials
		6.3 Other materials
		References
CH007.pdf
	Chapter 7 Clinical applications and animal studies
		7.1 Joint imaging
			7.1.1 Rabbit knee joints
			7.1.2 Healthy human finger joints
			7.1.3 Diseased human finger joints
		7.2 Brain imaging
			7.2.1 In vivo rat brain
			7.2.2 Phantom enclosed with ex vivo human skull
			7.2.3 In vivo human brain
		7.3 Imaging of thyroid
			7.3.1 Thermoacoustic imaging system
			7.3.2 Results and discussion
		7.4 Liver imaging
		7.5 Vascular imaging
		7.6 Breast imaging
		References