Recent advances in contrast-enhanced photoacoustic imaging: overcoming the physical and practical challenges

W Choi, B Park, S Choi, D Oh, J Kim, C Kim - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
For decades now, photoacoustic imaging (PAI) has been investigated to realize its potential
as a niche biomedical imaging modality. Despite its highly desirable optical contrast and …

Photoacoustic tomography and sensing in biomedicine

C Li, LV Wang - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Photoacoustics has been broadly studied in biomedicine, for both human and small animal
tissues. Photoacoustics uniquely combines the absorption contrast of light or radio …

Photoacoustic imaging and characterization of the microvasculature

S Hu, LV Wang - Journal of biomedical optics, 2010 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Photoacoustic (optoacoustic) tomography, combining optical absorption contrast and highly
scalable spatial resolution (from micrometer optical resolution to millimeter acoustic …

Signal and image processing in biomedical photoacoustic imaging: a review

R Manwar, M Zafar, Q Xu - Optics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a powerful imaging modality that relies on the PA effect. PAI
works on the principle of electromagnetic energy absorption by the exogenous contrast …

Combined ultrasound and optoacoustic system for real-time high-contrast vascular imaging in vivo

JJ Niederhauser, M Jaeger, R Lemor… - IEEE transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In optoacoustic imaging, short laser pulses irradiate highly scattering human tissue and
adiabatically heat embedded absorbing structures, such as blood vessels, to generate …

Optoacoustic imaging and tomography: reconstruction approaches and outstanding challenges in image performance and quantification

C Lutzweiler, D Razansky - Sensors, 2013 - mdpi.com
This paper comprehensively reviews the emerging topic of optoacoustic imaging from the
image reconstruction and quantification perspective. Optoacoustic imaging combines highly …

In vivo photoacoustic imaging of blood vessels with a pulsed laser diode

RGM Kolkman, W Steenbergen… - Lasers in medical …, 2006 - Springer
Photoacoustic imaging is a hybrid imaging modality that is based on the detection of
acoustic waves generated by absorption of pulsed light by tissue chromophores such as …

Photoacoustic mammography laboratory prototype: imaging of breast tissue phantoms

S Manohar, A Kharine… - … of biomedical optics, 2004 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present a laboratory version of a photoacoustic mammoscope, based on a parallel plate
geometry. The instrument is built around a flat high-density ultrasound detector matrix. The …

Laser treatment of vascular lesions

SW Lanigan - Laser dermatology, 2013 - Springer
A wide variety of cutaneous vascular disorders can be successfully treated with current
lasers. The pulsed dye laser enabled treatment of cutaneous vessels following principles of …

[HTML][HTML] Singular value decomposition with weighting matrix applied for optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopes

IGE Sulistyawan, D Nishimae, T Ishii, Y Saijo - Ultrasonics, 2024 - Elsevier
The prestige target selectivity and imaging depth of optical-resolution photoacoustic
microscope (OR-PAM) have gained attentions to enable advanced intra-cellular …