Compensation of Finite Bandwidth Effect by Using an Optimal Filter in Photoacoustic Imaging.docVIP

Engineering, 2013, 5, 27-31 /10.4236/eng.2013.510B006 Published Online October 2013 (/journal/eng) Compensation of Finite Bandwidth Effect by Using an Optimal Filter in Photoacoustic Imaging* Chen Zhang, Yan Zhang, Yuanyuan Wang Department of Electronic Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China Email: 11110720018@, yywang@ Received September 2012 ABSTRACT Most existing reconstruction algorithms for photoacoustic imaging (PAI) assume that transducers used to receive ultra- sound signals have infinite bandwidth. When transducers with finite bandwidth are used, this assumption may re