[HTML][HTML] Development of a stationary 3D photoacoustic imaging system using sparse single-element transducers: Phantom study

K Kratkiewicz, R Manwar, M Zafar… - Applied sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging label-free and non-invasive modality for
imaging biological tissues. PAI has been implemented in different configurations, one of …

Broadening the detection view of 2D photoacoustic tomography using two linear array transducers

W Shu, M Ai, T Salcudean, R Rohling… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Although commercial linear array transducers are widely used in clinical ultrasound, their
application in photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is still limited due to the limited-view problem …

Coherent-weighted three-dimensional image reconstruction in linear-array-based photoacoustic tomography

D Wang, Y Wang, Y Zhou, JF Lovell… - Biomedical optics …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
While the majority of photoacoustic imaging systems used custom-made transducer arrays,
commercially-available linear transducer arrays hold the benefits of affordable price …

Slip-ring-based multi-transducer photoacoustic tomography system

Z Deng, W Li, C Li - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Although the transducer array-based photoacoustic tomography (PAT) system provides fast
imaging speed, its high cost and system complexity hinder its implementations. In this Letter …

Low-cost fast photoacoustic computed tomography: phantom study

M Zafar, K Kratkiewicz, R Manwar… - … : Imaging and Sensing …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is an emerging modality for imaging living biological
tissue. Being label free, non-invasive, and having comparable resolution to ultrasound, PAT …

[HTML][HTML] Development of low-cost fast photoacoustic computed tomography: System characterization and phantom study

M Zafar, K Kratkiewicz, R Manwar, M Avanaki - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
A low-cost Photoacoustic Computed Tomography (PACT) system consisting of 16 single-
element transducers has been developed. Our design proposes a fast rotating mechanism …

Three-dimensional photoacoustic imaging by sparse-array detection and iterative image reconstruction

P Ephrat, L Keenliside, A Seabrook… - Journal of …, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) has the potential to acquire 3-D optical images at high speed.
Attempts at 3-D photoacoustic imaging have used a dense 2-D array of ultrasound detectors …

Slit-enabled linear-array photoacoustic tomography with near isotropic spatial resolution in three dimensions

Y Wang, D Wang, Y Zhang, J Geng, JF Lovell, J Xia - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Due to its unique capability of visualizing optical absorption in deep tissues, photoacoustic
tomography is increasingly used in biomedical imaging. Among various types of transducer …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-angle data acquisition to compensate transducer finite size in photoacoustic tomography

S Hakakzadeh, M Mozaffarzadeh, SM Mostafavi… - Photoacoustics, 2022 - Elsevier
In photoacoustic tomography (PAT) systems, the tangential resolution decreases due to the
finite size of the transducer as the off-center distance increases. To address this problem, we …

Photoacoustic tomography with a limited-aperture planar sensor and a reverberant cavity

BT Cox, SR Arridge, PC Beard - Inverse Problems, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Biomedical photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a soft-tissue imaging modality which
combines the high spatial resolution of ultrasound (US) with the contrast and spectroscopic …