Quantitative photoacoustic tomography: modeling and inverse problems

T Tarvainen, B Cox - Journal of Biomedical Optics, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance Quantitative photoacoustic tomography (QPAT) exploits the photoacoustic
effect with the aim of estimating images of clinically relevant quantities related to the tissue's …

Efficient photoacoustic image synthesis with deep learning

T Rix, KK Dreher, JH Nölke, M Schellenberg, MD Tizabi… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Photoacoustic imaging potentially allows for the real-time visualization of functional human
tissue parameters such as oxygenation but is subject to a challenging underlying …

Moving beyond simulation: data-driven quantitative photoacoustic imaging using tissue-mimicking phantoms

J Gröhl, TR Else, L Hacker, EV Bunce… - … on Medical Imaging, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate measurement of optical absorption coefficients from photoacoustic imaging (PAI)
data would enable direct mapping of molecular concentrations, providing vital clinical …

Unsupervised domain transfer with conditional invertible neural networks

KK Dreher, L Ayala, M Schellenberg, M Hübner… - … Conference on Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Synthetic medical image generation has evolved as a key technique for neural network
training and validation. A core challenge, however, remains in the domain gap between …

Super phantoms: advanced models for testing medical imaging technologies

S Manohar, I Sechopoulos, MA Anastasio… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Phantoms are test objects used for initial testing and optimization of medical imaging
techniques, but these rarely capture the complex properties of the tissue. Here we introduce …

Effects of skin tone on photoacoustic imaging and oximetry

TR Else, L Hacker, J Gröhl, EV Bunce… - Journal of …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) provides contrast based on the concentration of
optical absorbers in tissue, enabling the assessment of functional physiological parameters …

Unsupervised segmentation of 3D microvascular photoacoustic images using deep generative learning

PW Sweeney, L Hacker, TL Lefebvre… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mesoscopic photoacoustic imaging (PAI) enables label‐free visualization of vascular
networks in tissues with high contrast and resolution. Segmenting these networks from 3D …

[HTML][HTML] Photoacoustic image synthesis with generative adversarial networks

M Schellenberg, J Gröhl, KK Dreher, JH Nölke… - Photoacoustics, 2022 - Elsevier
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) has the potential to recover morphological and functional
tissue properties with high spatial resolution. However, previous attempts to solve the optical …

[HTML][HTML] Quantification of vascular networks in photoacoustic mesoscopy

EL Brown, TL Lefebvre, PW Sweeney, BJ Stolz, J Gröhl… - Photoacoustics, 2022 - Elsevier
Mesoscopic photoacoustic imaging (PAI) enables non-invasive visualisation of tumour
vasculature. The visual or semi-quantitative 2D measurements typically applied to …

scatterBrains: an open database of human head models and companion optode locations for realistic Monte Carlo photon simulations

MM Wu, R Horstmeyer, SA Carp - Journal of Biomedical Optics, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are currently the gold standard in the near-
infrared and diffuse correlation spectroscopy (NIRS/DCS) communities for generating light …