Review of consensus test methods in medical imaging and current practices in photoacoustic image quality assessment

J Palma-Chavez, TJ Pfefer, A Agrawal… - Journal of …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance: Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a powerful emerging technology with broad
clinical applications, but consensus test methods are needed to standardize performance …

Hybrid PET/MR imaging in myocardial inflammation post-myocardial infarction

B Wilk, G Wisenberg, R Dharmakumar… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2020 - Springer
Hybrid PET/MR imaging is an emerging imaging modality combining positron emission
tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the same system. Since the …

Biologically relevant photoacoustic imaging phantoms with tunable optical and acoustic properties

WC Vogt, C Jia, KA Wear, BS Garra… - … of biomedical optics, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Established medical imaging technologies such as magnetic resonance imaging and
computed tomography rely on well-validated tissue-simulating phantoms for standardized …

Development and application of stable phantoms for the evaluation of photoacoustic imaging instruments

SE Bohndiek, S Bodapati, D Van De Sompel… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Photoacoustic imaging combines the high contrast of optical imaging with the spatial
resolution and penetration depth of ultrasound. This technique holds tremendous potential …

3D-visual laser-diode-based photoacoustic imaging

L Zeng, G Liu, D Yang, X Ji - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We present a 3D-visual laser-diode-based photoacoustic imaging (LD-PAI) system with a
pulsed semiconductor laser source, which has the properties of being inexpensive, portable …

Two-layer heterogeneous breast phantom for photoacoustic imaging

C Jia, WC Vogt, KA Wear, TJ Pfefer… - Journal of biomedical …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is emerging as a potentially important aid for breast cancer
detection. Well-validated tissue-simulating phantoms are needed for objective, quantitative …

Forming magnetosome-like nanoparticles in mammalian cells for molecular MRI

DE Goldhawk, N Gelman, RT Thompson… - Design and applications …, 2017 - Springer
To identify molecular activities that define the early stages of disease progression, there is a
critical need to noninvasively image these processes. For this, the magnetosome is an ideal …

Quantitative assessment of photoacoustic tomography systems integrating clinical ultrasound transducers using novel tissue-simulating phantoms

WC Vogt, C Jia, KA Wear, BS Garra… - … : Imaging and Sensing …, 2015 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Photoacoustic Tomography (PAT) systems based on commercial ultrasound instruments
have the benefit of dualmodality imaging, which increases their appeal from a clinical …

3D photoacoustic imaging using a staring-sparse array with 60 transducers

MB Roumeliotis, I Kosik… - Photons Plus Ultrasound …, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Photoacoustic imaging is a hybrid imaging modality capable of producing images based on
optical contrast, but with depth penetration and resolution similar to ultrasound imaging. In …

Characterization of tissue-simulating polymers for photoacoustic vascular imaging

WC Vogt, C Jia, BS Garra… - Smart Biomedical and …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a maturing imaging technique which combines optical
excitation and acoustic detection to enable deep tissue sensing for biomedical applications …