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 …

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 …

Technical considerations in the Verasonics research ultrasound platform for develo** a photoacoustic imaging system

K Kratkiewicz, R Manwar, Y Zhou… - Biomedical Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging functional and molecular imaging technology
that has attracted much attention in the past decade. Recently, many researchers have used …

[HTML][HTML] Review of cost reduction methods in photoacoustic computed tomography

A Fatima, K Kratkiewicz, R Manwar, M Zafar, R Zhang… - Photoacoustics, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Photoacoustic Computed Tomography (PACT) is a major configuration of
photoacoustic imaging, a hybrid noninvasive modality for both functional and molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Practical photoacoustic tomography: realistic limitations and technical solutions

W Choi, D Oh, C Kim - Journal of Applied Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This article offers a perspective on photoacoustic tomography (PAT) under realistic
scenarios. While PAT has gained much attention in preclinical and clinical research, most …

Photoacoustic-guided surgery from head to toe

A Wiacek, MA Lediju Bell - Biomedical Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Photoacoustic imaging–the combination of optics and acoustics to visualize differences in
optical absorption–has recently demonstrated strong viability as a promising method to …

[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/ultrasound/optical coherence tomography evaluation of melanoma lesion and healthy skin in a swine model

K Kratkiewicz, R Manwar, A Rajabi-Estarabadi… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
The marked increase in the incidence of melanoma coupled with the rapid drop in the
survival rate after metastasis has promoted the investigation into improved diagnostic …

A novel dictionary-based image reconstruction for photoacoustic computed tomography

P Omidi, M Zafar, M Mozaffarzadeh, A Hariri, X Haung… - Applied Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
One of the major concerns in photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is obtaining a
high-quality image using the minimum number of ultrasound transducers/view angles. This …

Double-stage delay multiply and sum beamforming algorithm applied to ultrasound medical imaging

M Mozaffarzadeh, M Sadeghi, A Mahloojifar… - Ultrasound in medicine & …, 2018 - Elsevier
In ultrasound (US) imaging, delay and sum (DAS) is the most common beamformer, but it
leads to low-quality images. Delay multiply and sum (DMAS) was introduced to address this …