Noninvasive electromagnetic wave sensing of glucose

R Zhang, S Liu, H **, Y Luo, Z Zheng, F Gao, Y Zheng - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Diabetic patients need long-term and frequent glucose monitoring to assist in insulin intake.
The current finger-prick devices are painful and costly, which places noninvasive glucose …

Review of low-cost photoacoustic sensing and imaging based on laser diode and light-emitting diode

H Zhong, T Duan, H Lan, M Zhou, F Gao - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT), a promising medical imaging method that combines
optical and ultrasound techniques, has been develo** for decades mostly in preclinical …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear mechanisms in photoacoustics—powerful tools in photoacoustic imaging

R Gao, Z Xu, Y Ren, L Song, C Liu - Photoacoustics, 2021 - Elsevier
Many nonlinear effects have been discovered and developed in photoacoustic imaging.
These nonlinear mechanisms have been explored for different utilizations, such as …

Photoacoustic image classification and segmentation of breast cancer: a feasibility study

J Zhang, B Chen, M Zhou, H Lan, F Gao - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, breast cancer has increasingly threatened the health of human, especially
females. However, breast cancer is still hard to detect in the early stage, and the diagnostic …

[HTML][HTML] Photoacoustic imaging with low-cost sources; a review

M Erfanzadeh, Q Zhu - Photoacoustics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Benefitting from advantages of optical and ultrasound imaging, photoacoustic imaging (PAI)
has demonstrated potentials in a wide range of medical applications. In order to facilitate …

Advanced photoacoustic and thermoacoustic sensing and imaging beyond pulsed absorption contrast

F Gao, X Feng, Y Zheng - Journal of Optics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we review the recent progress in the photoacoustic (PA) and thermoacoustic
(TA) imaging domain. Going beyond the conventional investigation of optical/microwave …

Rationally encapsulated gold nanorods improving both linear and nonlinear photoacoustic imaging contrast in vivo

F Gao, L Bai, S Liu, R Zhang, J Zhang, X Feng… - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Photoacoustic tomography has emerged as a promising non-invasive imaging technique
that integrates the merits of high optical contrast with high ultrasound resolution in deep …

Thermo-vibrational analyses of skin tissue subjected to laser heating source in thermal therapy

M Ghanbari, G Rezazadeh - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Laser-induced thermal therapy, due to its applications in various clinical treatments, has
become an efficient alternative, especially for skin ablation. In this work, the two-dimensional …

[HTML][HTML] An analytical study of photoacoustic and thermoacoustic generation efficiency towards contrast agent and film design optimization

F Gao, R Kishor, X Feng, S Liu, R Ding, R Zhang… - Photoacoustics, 2017 - Elsevier
Photoacoustic (PA) and thermoacoustic (TA) effects have been explored in many
applications, such as bio-imaging, laser-induced ultrasound generator, and sensitive …

Photoacoustic elastic oscillation and characterization

F Gao, X Feng, Y Zheng - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Photoacoustic imaging and sensing have been studied extensively to probe the optical
absorption of biological tissue in multiple scales ranging from large organs to small …