Microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging of subcutaneous vasculature with near-field RF excitation

MS Aliroteh, A Arbabian - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Imaging of subcutaneous vasculature is of great interest for biometric security and point-of-
care medicine. We investigate the feasibility of microwave-induced thermoacoustic (TA) …

Microwave-induced thermoacoustic tomography for subcutaneous vascular imaging

M Aliroteh, H Nan, A Arbabian - 2016 IEEE International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Growing demand for bedside medical imaging with increased ease of access has motivated
development of more cost-effective ultrasound systems. Multimodal imaging techniques …

Label-free thermoacoustic imaging of human blood vessels in vivo

Z Zheng, L Huang, H Jiang - Applied physics letters, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Here, we demonstrate that thermoacoustic imaging (TAI) is able to image human blood
vessels in vivo without the use of any contrast agent. By optimizing the polarization direction …

Compact thermoacoustic imaging system based on a low‐cost and miniaturized microwave generator for in vivo biomedical imaging

L Huang, Z Zheng, Z Chi, H Jiang - Medical Physics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Most of existing thermoacoustic imaging (TAI) studies generally utilized a linear
modulator‐based high peak power magnetron generator (MG) for efficient TA signal …

Portable microwave-acoustic coaxial thermoacoustic probe with miniaturized vivaldi antennas for breast tumor screening

M Ren, Z Cheng, L Wu, H Zhang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave-induced thermoacoustic (TA) imaging (MTAI), which exploits dielectric contrasts
to provide images with high contrast and spatial resolution, holds the potential to serve as an …

Coherent frequency-domain microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging

H Nan, A Arbabian - 2014 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave-induced thermoacoustic (TA) imaging combines the soft-tissue contrast of
microwave signals with the resolution of ultrasound (US) imaging without posing any …

Microwave‐induced thermoacoustic tomography through an adult human skull

A Yan, L Lin, C Liu, J Shi, S Na, LV Wang - Medical physics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To demonstrate the feasibility of microwave‐induced thermoacoustic tomography
(TAT) of adult human brain. Methods We analyzed the electric field distribution radiated from …

Biomedical microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging

Q Liu, X Liang, W Qi, Y Gong, H Jiang… - Journal of Innovative …, 2022 - World Scientific
Microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging (MTAI) has emerged as a potential biomedical
imaging modality with over 20-year growth. MTAI typically employs pulsed microwave as the …

Peak-power-limited frequency-domain microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging for handheld diagnostic and screening tools

H Nan, A Arbabian - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coherent frequency-domain microwave-induced thermoacoustic (TA) imaging is
investigated as an alternative to the traditional pulsed-based TA imaging approaches that …

Stepped-frequency continuous-wave microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging

H Nan, A Arbabian - Applied Physics Letters, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Microwave-induced thermoacoustic (TA) imaging combines the dielectric contrast of
microwave imaging with the resolution of ultrasound imaging. Prior studies have only …