Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 3, Issue 4, 247(2010)

PHOTOACOUSTIC GENERATION OF FOCUSED QUASI-UNIPOLAR PRESSURE PULSES

KONSTANTIN MASLOV1... HAO F. ZHANG1,2 and LIHONG V. WANG1,* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Optical Imaging Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
  • 2Current address: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
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    KONSTANTIN MASLOV, HAO F. ZHANG, LIHONG V. WANG. PHOTOACOUSTIC GENERATION OF FOCUSED QUASI-UNIPOLAR PRESSURE PULSES[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2010, 3(4): 247

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    Published Online: Jan. 10, 2019

    The Author Email: WANG LIHONG V. (lhwang@biomed.wustl.edu)

    DOI:10.1142/s1793545810001118

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