Microwave radar and microwave-induced thermoacoustic technique exploit the contrast in the permittivity and conductivity between malignant and healthy tissue. They have emerged as promising techniques for detecting breast cancers. This paper compares the imaging capability of these techniques in the presence of homogeneous and heterogeneous breast tissue. Relying on the data from the finite-dif...

PURPOSE Thermoacoustic imaging at microwave excitation frequencies is limited by the low differential contrast exhibited by high water content tissues. To overcome this, exogenous thermoacoustic contrast agents based on gadolinium compounds, iron oxide, and single wall carbon nanotubes have previously been suggested and investigated. However, these previous studies did not fully characterize th...

This paper will present the structure of the new system, the control scheme and its performance test results. In this new system, the damper in the conventional refrigerator is replaced by an additional cooling fan Thus, it uses two cooling fans: one (F-fan) is to provide cooled air for freezing compartment (F-compartment) and the other (R-fan) is for refrigerating compartment (R-compartment), ...

We present a family of closed form inversion formulas in thermoacoustic tomography in the case of a constant sound speed. The formulas are presented in both time-domain and frequency-domain versions. As special cases, they imply most of the previously known filtered backprojection type formulas.

A recent study [H. Hao and F. Semperlotti, Phys. Rev. B 104, 104303 (2021)] investigated the dynamic behavior of an infinite one-dimensional (1D) thermoacoustic waveguide (TAWG) illustrated its ability to sustain nonreciprocal near zero-index sound propagation behavior; these properties can be very beneficial in design acoustic devices, including diodes, amplifiers, cloaks. Nevertheless, it is ...

Maintaining the vaccine cold chain is an essential part of a successful immunization programme, but in developed countries faulty procedures may occur more commonly than is generally believed. A survey was conducted in a health district in central Italy to assess the methods of vaccine transportation and storage. Of 52 primary vaccination offices inspected, 39 (76.5%) had a refrigerator for vac...

ρ-filtered reconstruction in 2D xray CT is comparedand contrasted to 3D thermoacoustic tomography. The math issimpler in 3D than 2D and a simple example sheds light on earlyCT results indicating image quality loss in ρ-filteredreconstruction.

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