Microbubbles used for contrast enhanced ultrasound and theragnosis: a review of principles to applications

H Lee, H Kim, H Han, M Lee, S Lee, H Yoo… - Biomedical Engineering …, 2017 - Springer
Ultrasound was developed several decades ago as a useful imaging modality, and it
became the second most popular diagnostic tool due to its non-invasiveness, real-time …

Breakthroughs in modern cancer therapy and elusive cardiotoxicity: Critical research‐practice gaps, challenges, and insights

PP Zheng, J Li, JM Kros - Medicinal research reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To date, five cancer treatment modalities have been defined. The three traditional modalities
of cancer treatment are surgery, radiotherapy, and conventional chemotherapy, and the two …

Real-time sentinel lymph node biopsy guidance using combined ultrasound, photoacoustic, fluorescence imaging: in vivo proof-of-principle and validation with nodal …

J Kang, JH Chang, SM Kim, HJ Lee, H Kim… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Precise sentinel lymph node (SLN) identification is crucial not only for accurate diagnosis of
micro-metastases at an early stage of cancer progression but also for reducing the number …

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 …

Elevational synthetic aperture focusing for three-dimensional photoacoustic imaging using a clinical one-dimensional array transducer

C Yoon, J Kang, T Song… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Two-dimensional (2D) photoacoustic (PA) imaging based on array transducers
provide high spatial resolution in the lateral direction by adopting receive dynamic focusing …

Multimodal photoacoustic imaging as a tool for sentinel lymph node identification and biopsy guidance

H Kim, JH Chang - Biomedical Engineering Letters, 2018 - Springer
As a minimally invasive method, sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in conjunction with
guidance methods is the standard method to determine cancer metastasis in breast. The …

Transrectal ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging probe for diagnosis of prostate cancer

J Jang, J Kim, HJ Lee, JH Chang - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
A combined transrectal ultrasound and photoacoustic (TRUS–PA) imaging probe was
developed for the clear visualization of morphological changes and microvasculature …

An economic photoacoustic imaging platform using automatic laser synchronization and inverse beamforming

Y Wu, HK Zhang, J Kang, EM Boctor - Ultrasonics, 2020 - Elsevier
We present a proof-of-concept of an automatic integration of photoacoustic (PA) imaging on
clinical ultrasound (US) imaging platforms. Here we tackle two critical challenges: the laser …

A dual-modality system for both multi-color ultrasound-switchable fluorescence and ultrasound imaging

J Kandukuri, S Yu, B Cheng, V Bandi… - International Journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Simultaneous imaging of multiple targets (SIMT) in opaque biological tissues is an important
goal for molecular imaging in the future. Multi-color fluorescence imaging in deep tissues is …

[HTML][HTML] Real-time dual-modal photoacoustic and fluorescence small animal imaging

Y Sun, Y Wang, W Li, C Li - Photoacoustics, 2024 - Elsevier
By combining optical absorption contrast and acoustic resolution, photoacoustic imaging
(PAI) has broken the barrier in depth for high-resolution optical imaging. Meanwhile …