The life sciences can benefit greatly from imaging technologies that connect microscopic
discoveries with macroscopic observations. One technology uniquely positioned to provide …

Nanomedicine is defined as “the application of nanotechnology to medicine, including the
use of nanometer-sized carrier materials for facilitating disease diagnosis, disease treatment …

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging and photothermal therapy (PTT) provide useful tools for
diagnosis and treatments of diseases. However, current applications of PA imaging and PTT …

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging, also called optoacoustic imaging, is a new biomedical imaging
modality based on the use of laser-generated ultrasound that has emerged over the last …

We review the history of photoacoustics from the discovery in 1880 that modulated light
produces acoustic waves to the current time, when the pulsed variant of the discovery is fast …

Photoacoustic imaging—a hybrid biomedical imaging modality finding its way to clinical
practices. Although the photoacoustic phenomenon was known more than a century back …

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is probably the fastest-growing area of biomedical imaging
technology, owing to its capacity for high-resolution sensing of rich optical contrast in vivo at …

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Interventional applications of photoacoustic imaging typically require visualization of point-
like targets, such as the small, circular, cross-sectional tips of needles, catheters, or …

Imaging techniques based on optical contrast analysis can be used to visualize dynamic
and functional properties of the nervous system via optical signals resulting from changes in …