Looking at sound: optoacoustics with all-optical ultrasound detection

G Wissmeyer, MA Pleitez, A Rosenthal… - Light: Science & …, 2018 - nature.com
Originally developed for diagnostic ultrasound imaging, piezoelectric transducers are the
most widespread technology employed in optoacoustic (photoacoustic) signal detection …

Overview of ultrasound detection technologies for photoacoustic imaging

R Manwar, K Kratkiewicz, K Avanaki - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ultrasound detection is one of the major components of photoacoustic imaging systems.
Advancement in ultrasound transducer technology has a significant impact on the translation …

Optical fiber sensors for ultrasonic structural health monitoring: A review

R Soman, J Wee, K Peters - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Guided waves (GW) and acoustic emission (AE)-based structural health monitoring (SHM)
have widespread applications in structures, as the monitoring of an entire structure is …

Silicon-photonics acoustic detector for optoacoustic micro-tomography

Y Hazan, A Levi, M Nagli, A Rosenthal - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Medical ultrasound and optoacoustic (photoacoustic) imaging commonly rely on the
concepts of beam-forming and tomography for image formation, enabled by piezoelectric …

A transparent broadband ultrasonic detector based on an optical micro-ring resonator for photoacoustic microscopy

H Li, B Dong, Z Zhang, HF Zhang, C Sun - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) does not rely on contrast agent to image the optical
absorption contrast in biological tissue. It is uniquely suited for measuring several tissue …

Optical detection of ultrasound in photoacoustic imaging

B Dong, C Sun, HF Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Photoacoustic (PA) imaging emerges as a unique tool to study biological samples
based on optical absorption contrast. In PA imaging, piezoelectric transducers are …

Power enhancement of the U-shape cavity microring resonator through gap and material characterizations

IS Amiri, ANZ Rashed - Journal of Optical Communications, 2019 - degruyter.com
A U-shape cavity including the microring resonator with a radius of 3 µm has been modeled
and studied for the throughput and drop output power enhancement of the microring …

[HTML][HTML] A review of transparent sensors for photoacoustic imaging applications

D Ren, Y Sun, J Shi, R Chen - Photonics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Photoacoustic imaging is a new type of noninvasive, nonradiation imaging modality that
combines the deep penetration of ultrasonic imaging and high specificity of optical imaging …

A review of endogenous and exogenous contrast agents used in photoacoustic tomography with different sensing configurations

VTC Tsang, X Li, TTW Wong - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Optical-based sensing approaches have long been an indispensable way to detect
molecules in biological tissues for various biomedical research and applications. The …

Highly sensitive ultrasound detection using nanofabricated polymer micro-ring resonators

Y Lee, HF Zhang, C Sun - Nano Convergence, 2023 - Springer
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging enables noninvasive volumetric imaging of biological tissues by
capturing the endogenous optical absorption contrast. Conventional ultrasound detectors …