Photoacoustic imaging: contrast agents and their biomedical applications

Q Fu, R Zhu, J Song, H Yang, X Chen - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging as a fast‐developing imaging technique has great potential in
biomedical and clinical applications. It is a noninvasive imaging modality that depends on …

Review of low-cost photoacoustic sensing and imaging based on laser diode and light-emitting diode

H Zhong, T Duan, H Lan, M Zhou, F Gao - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT), a promising medical imaging method that combines
optical and ultrasound techniques, has been developing for decades mostly in preclinical …

[HTML][HTML] Y-Net: Hybrid deep learning image reconstruction for photoacoustic tomography in vivo

H Lan, D Jiang, C Yang, F Gao, F Gao - Photoacoustics, 2020 - Elsevier
Conventional reconstruction algorithms (eg, delay-and-sum) used in photoacoustic imaging
(PAI) provide a fast solution while many artifacts remain, especially for limited-view with ill …

[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 …

A Non‐Invasive Nanoprobe for In Vivo Photoacoustic Imaging of Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque

X Ge, H Cui, J Kong, SY Lu, R Zhan, J Gao… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Vulnerable atherosclerotic (AS) plaque is the major cause of cardiovascular death.
However, clinical methods cannot directly identify the vulnerable AS plaque at molecule …

[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 …

Molecular photoacoustic contrast agents: design principles & applications

RE Borg, J Rochford - Photochemistry and photobiology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a rapidly growing field which offers high spatial resolution
and high contrast for deep‐tissue imaging in vivo. PAI is nonionizing and noninvasive and …

Photoacoustic image classification and segmentation of breast cancer: a feasibility study

J Zhang, B Chen, M Zhou, H Lan, F Gao - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, breast cancer has increasingly threatened the health of human, especially
females. However, breast cancer is still hard to detect in the early stage, and the diagnostic …

Listening to tissues with new light: recent technological advances in photoacoustic imaging

T Vu, D Razansky, J Yao - Journal of Optics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT), or optoacoustic tomography, has achieved remarkable
progress in the past decade, benefiting from the joint developments in optics, acoustics …

AS-Net: fast photoacoustic reconstruction with multi-feature fusion from sparse data

M Guo, H Lan, C Yang, J Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is a biomedical imaging modality capable of acquiring high-
contrast images of optical absorption at depths much greater than traditional optical imaging …